| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
satire and sovereignty in Colonial Ireland |
| 作者: |
MooreSean D, |
| 其他團體作者: |
Project Muse |
| 出版地: |
Baltimore |
| 出版者: |
Johns Hopkins University Press; |
| 出版年: |
2010 |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource (xi, 268 p.). |
| 標題: |
Book industries and trade - History - Ireland - |
| 標題: |
National characteristics, Irish - |
| 標題: |
English literature - Irish authors - |
| 標題: |
Satire, English - History and criticism - |
| 標題: |
Ireland - Economic conditions - |
| 標題: |
Ireland - History - |
| 標題: |
Swift - Jonathan - Criticism and interpretation - |
| 電子資源: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780801899249/ |
| 附註: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| 摘要註: |
In the 1700s, not all revolutions involved combat. Jonathan Swift, proving the pen is mightier than the sword, wrote scathing satires of England and, by so doing, fostered a growing sense of Irishness among thepeople who lived on the large island to the left of London. This senseof Irish nationalism, Moore argues, led to a greater sense of being independent from the mainland and, in what might be a surprise, more autonomy for Ireland than one might imagine. And so, when the good times rolled, Ireland got to keep much of its newly generated wealth. This was in sharp contrast to another British territory, consisting of thirteen colonies, where taxes tended to be increased with somewhat unpleasant consequences. What begins with a look at Swift's satiric writings ends up being a fascinating study of Colonialism and post-Colonialism--ever asubject of interest--allowing thoughtful and provocative insights intoIrish and American history |
| ISBN: |
9780801899249electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0801899249electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780801895074hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0801895073hbk. |
| 內容註: |
God knows how we wretches clme by that fashionable thing a national debt: the Dublin book trade and the Irish financial revolution -- Banking on print: the Bank of Ireland, the South Sea bubble, and the bailout-- Arachne's bowels: scatology, enlightenment, and Swift's relations with the London book trade -- Money, the great divider of the world, has, by a strange revolution, been the great uniter of a most divided people: from minting to printing in the Drapier's letters -- Devouring posterity: a modest proposal, empire, and Ireland's debt of the nation -- Amart of literature: the 1730sand the rise of a literary public spherein Ireland -- Epilogue: a brand identity crisis in a national literature? |