Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution : Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland /

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 the people who lived on the large island to the left of London. This sense of Irish nationali...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moore, Sean D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Swift, Jonathan, > 1667-1745 > Criticism and interpretation.
Book industries and trade > Ireland > History.
National characteristics, Irish.
English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism.
Satire, English > History and criticism.
Ireland > Economic conditions.
Ireland > History > Autonomy and independence movements.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • God knows how we wretches came 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
  • A mart of literature: the 1730s and the rise of a literary public sphere in Ireland
  • Epilogue: a brand identity crisis in a national literature?

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