Swift as Priest and Satirist

• Author(s): Todd C. Parker,
• Publisher: Associated University Presse
• Pages: 231
• ISBN_10: 0874130441
  ISBN_13: 9780874130447
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Humor / General , Literary Collections / Essays , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Religion ,

Description:... The essays in this volume cover four broad categories: (1) Essays that historicize his relationship to the Church of Ireland and to the bruising world of eighteenth-century theological discourse in general. (2) Essays that examine how Swift represents religious figures and controversies in his poetry and prose, including a A Tale of a Tub. (3) Essays that theorize the relationships between religious and literary genres. (4) Essays that articulate the links between Swift's satires and contemporary religious, philosophical, and scientific discourse."--BOOK JACKET.