Rawson, Claude Julien. Swift's angers

Folger bibliographic ID: 339917
Folger call number: PR3727 .R33 2014
Folger holdings ID: 491823

"Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most brilliant satire, A Tale of a Tub, the aggressive vitality of the narrative is designed, for all the intensity of its sting, never to lose its cool. Yet Swift's angers are partly self-implicating, since his own temperament was close to the things he attacked, and behind his angers are deep self-divisions. Though he regarded himself as 'English' and despised the Irish 'natives' over whom the English ruled, Swift became the hero of an Irish independence he would not have desired. In this magisterial account, Claude Rawson, widely considered the leading Swift scholar of our time, brings together recent work, as well as classic earlier discussions extensively revised, offering fresh insights into Swift's bleak view of human nature, his brilliant wit, and the indignations and self-divisions of his writings and political activism"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction: not Timons Manner -- Part I. Ireland: 1. Swift, Ireland and the paradoxes of ethnicity; 2. The injured lady and the drapier: a reading of Swift's Irish tracts -- Part II. Fiction: 3. Swift satire and the novel; 4. Gulliver's Travels; 5. Swift's 'I' narrators -- Part III. Poetry: 6. Rage and raillery and Swift: the case of Cadenus and Vanessa; 7. Vanessa as a reader of Gulliver's Travels; 8. Swift's poetry: an overview; 9. 'I The Lofty Stile Decline': vicissitudes of the 'heroick strain' in Swift's poems; 10. Savage indignation revisited: Swift, Yeats, and the 'cry' of liberty

Extended title: Swift's angers / Claude Rawson

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 Anger in literature Polarity in literature Politics and literature LITERARY CRITICISM Satire Wut

author: Rawson, Claude Julien
subject: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745