Reading Swift : Papers from The Seventh Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift / J. A. Downie, Stephen Karian, James Woolley, Howard Weinbrot, Marcus Walsh, Hans-Peter Wagner, Hermann J. Real, Melinda Alliker Rabb, Jonathan Pritchard, Dirk F. Passmann, Patrick Müller, James E. May, Ashley Marshall, Gregory Lynall, Florian Kläger, Kirsten Juhas, Allan Ingram, Ian Higgins, David W. Hayton, Moyra Haslett, Mascha Hansen, Eugene R. Hammond, Rudolf Freiburg, Rebecca Ferguson, Christopher Fauske, Daniel Cook, Norbert Col, Andrew Carpenter, Sabine Baltes-Ellermann, David Alvarez, Janika Bischof, Kirsten Juhas, Hermann J. Real

• MitwirkendeR: Downie, J. A.; Karian, Stephen; Woolley, James; Weinbrot, Howard; Walsh, Marcus; Wagner, Hans-Peter; Real, Hermann J.; Rabb, Melinda Alliker; Pritchard, Jonathan; Passmann, Dirk F.; Müller, Patrick; May, James E.; Marshall, Ashley; Lynall, Gregory; Kläger, Florian; Juhas, Kirsten; Ingram, Allan; Higgins, Ian; Hayton, David W.; Haslett, Moyra; Hansen, Mascha; Hammond, Eugene R.; Freiburg, Rudolf; Ferguson, Rebecca; Fauske, Christopher; Cook, Daniel; Col, Norbert; Carpenter, Andrew; Baltes-Ellermann, Sabine; Alvarez, David
• HerausgeberIn: Bischof, Janika; Juhas, Kirsten; Real, Hermann J.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: German
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This new volume of Reading Swift assembles 26 lectures delivered at the Seventh Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift in June 2017, testifying to an extraordinary spectrum of research interests in the Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, and his works. Reading Swift follows the tried and tested format of its predecessors, grouping the essays in eight sections: biographical problems; bibliographical and canonical studies; political and religious as well as philosophical, economic, and social issues; poetry; Gulliver's Travels; and reception studies. The élan vital, which has been such a distinctive feature of Swift scholar-ship in the past thirty-five years, is continuing unabated.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface / Hermann J. Real , Kirsten Juhas and Janika Bischof -- Abbreviations -- Biographical Aspects -- What Do Young Men Know? All-Too-Powerful Inferences Masquerading as Facts / Eugene Hammond -- The Biographer as Historian / J. A. Downie -- Bibliographical and Textual Studies -- Faulkner’s Volume II. Containing the Author’s Poetical Works: A New Uncancelled Copy / Andrew Carpenter and James Woolley -- False and Incomplete Imprints in Swift’s Dublin, 1710-35 / James E. May -- Annotating J. S. Swift’s Reading at Moor Park in 1697/8 / Dirk F. Passmann and Hermann J. Real -- Early Satires -- His Hob-Nailed Shoes: Time as a Creature and Reformation Polemic in Swift’s A Tale of a Tub / Rebecca Ferguson -- “These you distil in balneo Mariæ”: Swift’s Use of Alchemy in A Tale of a Tub / Rudolf Freiburg -- Poetry and Music -- “With brisk merry lays”: Songs on the Wood’s Halfpence Affair / Moyra Haslett -- Swift after Horace / Daniel Cook -- Gulliver’s Travels -- True-to-Life History? What the Dead Say in Gulliver’s Travels, or: Sensational Disclosures (Gulliver Tells All) / Norbert Col -- Travels with Horses: Swift, “Bolingbroke” and “Stay-behind’s mare” / Allan Ingram -- Thalesian Lessons: Mad Astronomers in British Fiction of the Long Eighteenth Century / Florian Klaeger -- Philosophical and Religious Issues -- Anatomies of Unbelief: Clandestine Dialogues between Swift and Shaftesbury / David Alvarez and Patrick Müller -- Swift, the Church, and Religion: The Sermons, the Tale, and the Critics / Marcus Walsh -- Swift, Defoe, Civil War, and the Meaning of (Bare) Life / Melinda Alliker Rabb -- Political Problems -- Lost Works by Swift and the Ballad of January 1712 / Stephen Karian -- Swift, Oldisworth, and the Politics of The Examiner, 1710-14 / Ashley Marshall -- The Quietude of Establishment: On Jonathan Swift, the Irish House of Lords, and the Established Church / Christopher J. Fauske -- Ireland -- “Yr Lemmons They Say are Good”: Swift on Fruit, Provisions, and the Condition of Ireland / Sabine Baltes-Ellermann -- Swift and the Politics of Dublin, 1727-33 / D. W. Hayton -- Dubliners: Swift and his Neighbours / Jonathan Pritchard -- Reception and Adaptation I -- Speaking with/of the Dead: Hester Thrale Piozzi and Swift / Kirsten Juhas and Mascha Hansen -- Swift’s Whig Pamphlet: Its Reception and Afterlife / Ian Higgins -- Swift among the Scientists, ad infinitum: Towards a History of Reading and Allusion / Gregory Lynall -- Reception and Adaptation II -- The Little People in Art: A Note on a Lacuna in the Reception of Gulliver’s Travels (Part I) / Peter Wagner -- “Toujours il faut adoucir”: Jonathan Swift, the Abbé Yart, Albin Hennet, and “le bon goût qui règne en France” / Howard D. Weinbrot -- Back Matter -- Contributors -- Index.