Representations of SwiftBrian A. Connery University of Delaware Press, 2002 - 310 pages These thirteen essays offer not only the representations of Swift to which its title refers but also a representation of Swift scholarship at the close of the twentieth century and a return to fundamental questions about the life, writing, and views of Swift, issues raised in part by literary scholarship's return to historicism but also powerfully suggestive of a return to biography. |
Contents
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The Fiction of Incompletion in A Tale of a Tub | 41 |
Swifts Tale the Renaissance Anatomy and Humanist Polemic | 57 |
Swift | 75 |
The Authorial Strategies of Swifts Verses on the Death | 77 |
Johnsons Life of Swift and the Contours of Biographical Inheritance in Late EighteenthCentury England | 99 |
The Rupert Barber Portraits of Jonathan Swift | 117 |
Swifts Mythopoeic Authority | 150 |
Swift Reynolds and the Lower Orders | 195 |
Swift and Ireland | 215 |
The Valence of Ambivalence | 217 |
The Drapier the Bishop and the Problems of Colonial Representation | 236 |
Coda Swift Today | 267 |
Prospects from a Late TwentiethCentury Perspective | 269 |
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Notes on Contributors | 300 |
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