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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Baltimore :
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2010.
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Table of Contents:
- 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?