Walking Naboth's Vineyard

by Fox, Christopher; Tooley, Brenda

• ISBN13: 9780268019501
• ISBN10: 0268019509
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

Walking Naboth's Vineyard brings together nine prominent scholars to present new and valuable perspectives on the work of Jonathan Swift. In recent years Swift has been increasingly reconsidered and recast as a distinctly Irish writer, and there is little doubt that his artistic career was shaped by Ireland's troubled political life. Literary critics and scholars, as well as scholars of Irish literature, will find this collection unique in that it explores Swift's life and writing in a distinctively Irish context and considers how Swift was influenced as a member of a population that was divided against itself, colonized by a neighboring kingdom, and politically and culturally marginalized. These essays demonstrate how, despite Swift's ambivalence about his Irish nationality, he found Ireland's worldly position a close parallel to his own complex position in the political and cultural worlds in which he lived.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Swift and Irish Studies	p. 1
Swift: Virtue, Travel, and the Enlightenment	p. 17
Jonathan Swift as Irish Historian	p. 40
Swift, God, and Power	p. 73
Swift and Romance	p. 98
Laetitia Pilkington on Swift: How Reliable Is She?	p. 127
The Humors of Quilca: Swift, Sheridan and County Cavan	p. 143
Jonathan Swift's Library, His Reading, and His Critics	p. 154
Sarah Harding as Swift's Printer	p. 164
Swift and Catholic Ireland	p. 178
Index	p. 201
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