The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe

by Hermann J. Real (Editor), Elinor Shaffer (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826468475
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/20/2005
Series:	The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Elinor Shaffer, FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, has published on Romantic and Victorian literature, is author of 'Kubla Khan' and The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School of Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature, edited the annual jourbanal Comparative Criticism, and most recently has contributed to Samuel Butler: Victorian Against the Grain.

Table of Contents

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, José 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 Düring
8. From Russian 'Sviftovedenie' to the Soviet School of Swift Criticism: The Dean's Fate in Russia, Michael Düring
9. Detecting Swift in the Czech Lands, Michael Düring
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.

Editorial Reviews

'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--,

"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--,

"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."--,

Reference & Research Book News, August 2006--,

'a worthy concept.' Adam Rounce, SHARP, 2006

Reference & Research Book News, August 2006--mention

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