Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Great Britain - General & Miscellaneous History, Irish Literary Biography, National Characteristics - Europe, Ireland - Political Biography, General & Miscellaneous Irish History, Nationalists - Political Biog
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Overview
This book traces Swift's fluctuating reception in Ireland through the centuries, finding in Swift's ambivalence about his homeland - which he could not love even as he defended its cause - echoes and anticipations of the ambiguities that have marked the development of Irish identity at large. Mahony looks at Swift's posthumous reputation in literary culture and examines his unusual place in Irish political rhetoric. He shows that Swift's patriotic reputation suffered in the later eighteenth century through its seeming irrelevance to shifting political circumstances.Book Details
Published
September 27, 1995
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780300063745