The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe
Published on 31. July 2005
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-8264-6847-5 (ISBN)
Description
A pioneering scholarly collection of essays outlining Jonathan Swift's reception and influence in Europe Jonathan Swift has had a profound impact on almost all the national literatures of continental Europe. The celebrated author of acknowledged masterpieces like A Tale of a Tub (1704), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729), the Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, was courted by innumerable translators, adaptors, and retellers, admired and challenged by shoals of critics, and creatively imitated by both novelists and playwrights, not only in central Europe (Germany and Switzerland) but also in its northern (Denmark and Sweden) and southern (Italy, Spain, and Portugal) outposts, as well as its eastern (Poland and Russia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria) and western parts - from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present day.
Reviews / Votes
Reference & Research Book News, August 2006 -- mention 'a worthy concept.' ~ Adam Rounce, SHARP, 2006 "This book is genuinely impressive as an index of the speed and extent to which Swift's reputation spread throughout his career and especially after his death...a remarkably valuable book indeed." -- Robert Mahony, Irish Studies Review 'This is an important pioneering work...The extensive bibliography, which minutely documents the translations, adaptations and critical articles in the various countries, is as praiseworthy as the wide-ranging and helpful Timeline. The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe represents an important and competent reference work for all future research on Swift on the European continent.' Ralf Haekel, Das Achtzehntes Jahrhundert (The Eighteenth Century), 31 -- Ralf Haekel, Das Achtzehntes Jahrhundert (The Eighteenth Century) "It is an indispensable reference text not only for reception study, but also for the many insights of European scholars who have discovered unexpected translations of Gulliver's Travels and who have mined early encyclopedias, correspondences, and journals for commentary on Swift as a man, author, Irish patriot, husband, lover....A concise overview by Mr. Real and an illuminating Timeline...it is a volume that one goes to with a specific interest." - The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats -- Manuel Schonhorn Book review in - Etudes Irlandaises, Printemps 20065, No. 31.1 * Etudes Irlandaises *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
781 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-6847-5 (9780826468475)
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Person
Hermann Josef Real is Professor of English at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster, and Director of the Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies. Dr Elinor Shaffer, Institute of Germanic Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Content
Acknowledgements List of Contributors Abbreviations Timeline: European Reception of Jonathan Swift Introduction: Swift on the Continent 1. Swift in France; Wilhelm Graeber, University of Gottingen 2 The Reception of Swift in Italy; Flavio Gregori, University of Venice 3 Jonathan Swift in Spain; Jose Louis Chamosa, University of Leon 4 Swift in Portugal: Aspects of his Reputation; Jorge Miguel Bastos da Silva, University of Porto 5 The Dean's Travels into Germany; Astrid Krake, Hermann J. Real, and Marie-Luise Spieckermann, Munchener Volkhochschule, University of Munster 6 The Dean's Presence in Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway, Sweden; Nils Hartmann, University of Munster 7 No Swift beyond Gulliver: Notes on the Dean's Reception in Poland; Michael During, University of Greifswald 8 From Russian 'Sviftovedenie' to the Soviet School of Swift Criticism: The Dean's Fate in Russia; Michael During, University of Greifswald 9 Jonathan Gulliver's into Remote Bohemia; Michael During, University of Greifswald 10 Jonathan Swift in Hungary; Gabriella Hartvig, University of Pecs 11 Swift's Reception in Bulgaria; Filipina Filipova, Sofia University 12 From the Infantile to the Subversive: Swift's Romanian Adventures; Mihaela Mudure, University of Cluj