The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe

by Real, Hermann J.

• ISBN13: 9780826468475
• ISBN10: 0826468470
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Jonathan Swift has had a profound impact on almost all the national literatures of Continental Europe. The celebrated author of acknowledged masterpieces like A Tale of a Tub (1704), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729), the Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, was courted by innumerable translators, adaptors, and retellers, admired and challenged by shoals of critics, and creatively imitated by both novelists and playwrights, not only in Central Europe (Germany and Switzerland) but also in its northern (Denmark and Sweden) and southern (Italy, Spain, and Portugal) outposts, as well as its eastern (Poland and Russia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria) and Western parts - from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present day. >

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	ix
Ilinor Shaffer
Acknowledgements	xiv
List of Contributors	xvi
Abbreviations	xviii
Timeline: European Reception of Jonathan Swift	xix
Introduction	1	(223)
Hermann J. Real
1 Swift's First Voyages to Europe: His Impact on Eighteenth-Century France	5	(12)
Wilhelm Graeber
2 The Italian Reception of Swift	17	(40)
Flavio Gregori
3 Swift's Horses in the Land of the Caballeros	57	(22)
José Louis Chamosa González
4 A Lusitanian Dish: Swift to Portuguese Taste	79	(14)
Jorge da Silva
5 The Dean's Voyages into Germany	93	(49)
Astrid Krake, Hermann J. Real and Marie-Luise Spieckermann
6 Swiftian Presence in Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway, Sweden	142	(14)
Nils Harunann
7 No Swift beyond Gulliver: Notes on the Polish Reception	156	(14)
Michael Düring
8 From Russian 'Sviftovedenie' to the Soviet School of Swift Criticism: The Dean's Fate in Russia	170	(44)
Michael Düring
9 Detecting Swift in the Czech Lands	214	(10)
Michael Düring
10 The Dean in Hungary	224	(14)
Gabriella Hartvig
11 Swift's Impact in Bulgaria	238	(10)
Filipina Filipova
12 From the Infantile to the Subversive: Swift's Romanian Adventures	248	(25)
Mihaela Mudure
13 Swiftian Material Culture	273	(11)
Sabine Baltes
Bibliography	284	(81)
Index	365