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Jonathan Swift by Hammond, Brean S. , 1951- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>This innovative series meets the urgent need for comprehensive new accounts of Irish writing across the centuries which combine readability with critical authority and information with insight. Each volume addresses the whole range of a writer's work in the various genres, setting its vision of the world in biographical context and situating it within the intellectual, cultural and political currents of the age, in Ireland and the wider world. This series will prove indispensable for students and specialists alike.</p> <p>This book offers an accessible single-volume introduction to a wider range of Swift's writing than is usually covered in such treatments of him. Primarily a work of biographically-inflected literary criticism, it draws on insights furnished by feminist and postcolonial literary theories when those are relevant. Its portrait of this charismatic writer confronts the complexities in character, style and rhetorical posture that make him enduring and important. Swift is situated as a career-clergyman rather than an imaginative writer, whose ecclesiastical politics, geographical and national situation in Ireland and obliquities of temperament made him the challenging

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Author

Hammond, Brean S. , 1951-

Publisher

Irish Academic Press, 2010.

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780716529507

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities