Reading Swift : : a Papers from The Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift / / Edited by Hermann J. Real; Kirsten Juhas; Sandra Simon.

• TeilnehmendeR: Real, Hermann J.,; Juhas, Kirsten,; Simon, Sandra,
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn : : Wilhelm Fink Verlag,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Assembling thirty-five lectures delivered at the Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift in June 2011, this new volume of Reading Swift testifies to an extraordinary spectrum of research interests in the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, and his works. As in the successful earlier volumes, the essays have been grouped in eight sections: biographical aspects (W. B. Carnochan, John Irwin Fischer, Clive T. Probyn, Abigail Williams); bibliographical and textual studies (Ian Gadd, James E. May); A Tale of a Tub (J. A. Downie, Gregory Lynall and Marcus Walsh, Michael McKeon); historical and religious issues (Christopher J. Fauske, Christopher Fox, Ian Higgins, Ashley Marshall, Nathalie Zimpfer); Irish vistas (Sabine Baltes, Toby Barnard, Andrew Carpenter, D. W. Hayton, James Ward); poetry (Daniel Cook, Kirsten Juhas, Stephen Karian, Dirk F. Passmann and Hermann J. Real, James Woolley); Gulliver’s Travels (Barbara M. Benedict, Allan Ingram, Ann Cline Kelly, Melinda Alliker Rabb); and reception and adaptation (Gabriella Hartvig, Clement Hawes, Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock, Tim Parnell, Peter Sabor, Nicholas Seager, Howard D. Weinbrot). Clearly, the élan vital, which has been such a distinctive feature of Swift scholarship in the past thirty years, is continuing unabated.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Kirsten Juhas , Hermann J. Real and Sandra Simon -- Preface / Hermann J. Real , Kirsten Juhas and Sandra Simon -- Abbreviations / Kirsten Juhas , Hermann J. Real and Sandra Simon -- “But Who Shall Arbitrate on Stella’s Hand?” / John Irwin Fischer -- The Fictional Afterlives of Swift’s Journal to Stella / Abigail Williams -- Fidus Achates: Swift and Charles Ford / W. B. Carnochan -- Swift in Wales: The Welch Connections / Clive T. Probyn -- “At four shillings per year, paying one quarter in hand”: Reprinting Swift’s Examiner in Dublin, 1710–11 / Ian Gadd -- The Duodecimo Editions of Swift’s A Tale of a Tub (“1711”) and A Complete Key to the Tale of a Tub (1714) / James E. May -- The Topicality of A Tale of a Tub / J.A. Downie -- Swift’s Debt to Marvell: Parody, Figuration, Religion, and Print Culture / Michael McKeon -- “Edifying by the margent”: Echoing Voices in Swift’s Tale / Gregory Lynall and Marcus Walsh -- Swift and the Passions of Posterity / Christopher Fox -- “Swift’s rhapsodical Tory-book”: The Aims and Motives of The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen / Ashley Marshall -- A Preface to Swift’s Test Act Tracts / Ian Higgins -- An Archbishop, a Dean, God, and the Church of Ireland / Christopher J. Fauske -- The Paradoxical Rhetoric of Swift’s Homiletics / Nathalie Zimpfer -- “To bring Men from an Anxiety for trifling Superfluities to the calm desire of bare necessaries”: The Drapier, his Allies, and Mandeville’s Paradox / Sabine Baltes -- Outlooks and Activities of the Church of Ireland Clergy in the Time of Swift / Toby Barnard -- Swift, the Church, and the ‘Improvement of Ireland’ / D. W. Hayton -- Pamphlets into Rags: Swift on Paper / James Ward -- The Birds and the Bees: Ecopoetry in Swift’s Irish Circle / Andrew Carpenter -- Swift’s Most Popular Poems / James Woolley -- “The Humble Petition of Frances Harris”: A Case of Sexual Extortion at Dublin Castle? / Dirk F. Passmann and Hermann J. Real -- Cadenus and Vanessa: The Self-Conscious Muse / Daniel Cook -- Who Was Swift’s “Corinna”? / Stephen Karian -- Death Frightened to Death: Swift’s Transformation of the Death-and-the-Maiden Motif / Kirsten Juhas -- Material Ideas: Things and Collections in Gulliver’s Travels / Barbara M. Benedict -- Cogito ergo Gulliver / Melinda Alliker Rabb -- Doctor at Sea: Gulliver and Medical Perception / Allan Ingram -- Swift’s Versions and Subversions of the Fable Genre: Context for Book Four of Gulliver’s Travels? / Ann Cline Kelly -- Gulliver Effects / Clement Hawes -- Gulliver’s Travels Serialized and Continued / Nicholas Seager -- “The greatest Master of Humour that ever wrote”: Henry Fielding’s Changing Views of Swift / Peter Sabor -- Laurence Sterne, Author of the Tale? / Tim Parnell -- “ ’Tis well an Old Age is out”: Johnson, Swift, and his Generation / Howard D. Weinbrot -- William Cobbett’s Political Journalism and Swift’s Rhetorical Heritage / Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock -- Hungarian Swift Scholarship in the Period of Censorship / Gabriella Hartvig -- Contributors / Kirsten Juhas , Hermann J. Real and Sandra Simon -- Index / Kirsten Juhas , Hermann J. Real and Sandra Simon.