スウィフト、書物とアイルランドの金融革命<br>Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution : Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland

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スウィフト、書物とアイルランドの金融革命
Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution : Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780801895074
  • DDC分類 828.509

基本説明

Applying postcolonial, new economic, and book history approaches to eighteenth-century studies, this book effectively links the era's critiques of empire to the financial and legal motives for decolonization.

Full Description

Renowned as one of the most brilliant satirists ever, Jonathan Swift has long fascinated Hibernophiles beyond the shores of the Emerald Isle. Sean Moore's examination of Swift's writings and the economics behind the distribution of his work elucidates the humorist's crucial role in developing a renewed sense of nationalism among the Irish during the eighteenth century. Taking Swift's Irish satires, such as A Modest Proposal and the Drapier's Letters, as examples of anticolonial discourse, Moore unpacks the author's carefully considered published words and his deliberate drive to liberate the Dublin publishing industry from England's shadow to argue that the writer was doing nothing less than creating a national print media. He points to the actions of Anglo-Irish colonial subjects at the outset of Britain's financial revolution; inspired by Swift's dream of a sovereign Ireland, these men and women harnessed the printing press to disseminate ideas of cultural autonomy and defend the country's economic rights.
Doing so, Moore contends, imbued the island with a sense of Irishness that led to a feeling of independence from England and ultimately gave the Irish a surprising degree of financial autonomy. Applying postcolonial, new economic, and book history approaches to eighteenth-century studies, Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution effectively links the era's critiques of empire to the financial and legal motives for decolonization. Scholars of colonialism, postcolonialism, Irish studies, Atlantic studies, Swift, and the history of the book will find Moore's eye-opening arguments original and compelling.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Introduction: Ireland, the Fiscal-Military State, and the Colonial Print Media
1. "God knows how we wretches came by that fashionable thing a national debt": The Dublin Book Trade and the Irish Financial Revolution
2. Banking on Print: The Bank of Ireland, the South Sea Bubble, and the Bailout
3. Arachne's Bowels: Scatology, Enlightenment, and Swift's Relations with the London Book Trade
4. "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
5. Devouring Posterity: A Modest Proposal, Empire, and Ireland's "Debt of the Nation"
6. "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?
Notes
Bibliography
Index