Politics And Literature In The Age Of Swift

8vo, cloyh in dj, 312 pages .Preface Claude Rawson, Part I. The Political Swift 1 (England): 1. Jonathan Swift's political confession Ian Higgins, 2. Situating Swift's politics in 1701 Mark Goldie, 3. Swift and Walpole Paul Langford, Part II. The Writer and His World: 4. Burying the fanatic partridge: Swift's Holy Week hoax Valerie Rumbold, 5. Swift and the art of political publication: hints and title pages, 1711-1714 James McLaverty, 6. Swift's poetics of friendship Helen Deutsch, 7. 'Now deaf 1740': entrapment, foreboding, and exorcism in late Swift David Womersley, 8. Savage indignation revisited: Swift, Yeats, and the 'cry' of liberty Claude Rawson, Part III. The Political Swift 2 (Ireland): 9. 'Paltry Underlings of State'? The character and aspirations of the 'Castle' Party, 1715-32 D. W. Hayton, 10. Old English, New English and Ancient Irish: Swift and the Irish past Sean Connolly, 11. Jonathan Swift and the Irish Colonial Project Robert Mahony, Index. BiographicalNote: Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University.