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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2010.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422989306719 |
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?
