The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe
Published on 3. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-4411-4394-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 18th century to the present day.
Reviews / Votes
A worthy concept. -- Adam Rounce, SHARP 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) 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. -- Manuel Schonhorn * The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats * Reference & Research Book News, August 2006 -- mention Book review in - Etudes Irlandaises, Printemps 20065, No. 31.1 * Etudes Irlandaises *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-4394-5 (9781441143945)
DOI
CBID169352
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Person
Hermann J. Real is Professor of English at the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, and Director of the Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Timeline: European Reception of Jonathan Swift
Introduction, Hermann J. Real
1. Swift's First Voyages to Europe: His Impact on Eighteenth-Century France, Wilhelm Graeber
2. The Italian Reception of Swift, Flavio Gregori
3. Swift's Horses in the Land of the Caballeros, Jose Louis Chamosa
4. A Lusitanian Dish: Swift to Portugese Taste, Jorge Miguel Bastos da Silva
5. The Dean's Voyages into Germany, Astrid Krake, Hermann J. Real, and Marie-Luise Spieckermann
6. Swiftian Presence in Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Nils Hartmann
7. No Swift Beyond Gulliver: Notes on the Polish Reception, Michael Duering
8. From Russian 'Sviftovedenie' to the Soviet School of Swift Criticism: The Dean's Fate in Russia, Michael Duering
9. Detecting Swift in the Czech Lands, Michael Duering
10. The Dean in Hungary, Gabriella Hartvig
11. Swift's Impact on Bulgaria, Filipina Filipova
12. From the Infantile to the Subversive: Swift's Romanian Adventures, Mihaela Mudure
13. Swiftian Material Culture, Sabine Baltes
Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Timeline: European Reception of Jonathan Swift
Introduction, Hermann J. Real
1. Swift's First Voyages to Europe: His Impact on Eighteenth-Century France, Wilhelm Graeber
2. The Italian Reception of Swift, Flavio Gregori
3. Swift's Horses in the Land of the Caballeros, Jose Louis Chamosa
4. A Lusitanian Dish: Swift to Portugese Taste, Jorge Miguel Bastos da Silva
5. The Dean's Voyages into Germany, Astrid Krake, Hermann J. Real, and Marie-Luise Spieckermann
6. Swiftian Presence in Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Nils Hartmann
7. No Swift Beyond Gulliver: Notes on the Polish Reception, Michael Duering
8. From Russian 'Sviftovedenie' to the Soviet School of Swift Criticism: The Dean's Fate in Russia, Michael Duering
9. Detecting Swift in the Czech Lands, Michael Duering
10. The Dean in Hungary, Gabriella Hartvig
11. Swift's Impact on Bulgaria, Filipina Filipova
12. From the Infantile to the Subversive: Swift's Romanian Adventures, Mihaela Mudure
13. Swiftian Material Culture, Sabine Baltes
Bibliography
Index