Jonathan Swift and popular culture
Subtitle: myth, media, and the man
By: Ann Cline Kelly.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745; Church of Ireland -- Clergy -- Biography; Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Mass media -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Verse satire, English -- History and criticism; Authors, Irish -- 18th century -- Biography; Satire, English -- History and criticism
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Ann Cline Kelly's book breaks the mold of Swift studies. Twentieth-century scholars have tended to assess Jonathan Swift as a pillar of the eighteenth-century "republic of letters," a conservative, even reactionary voice upholding classical values against the welling tide of popularization in literature.

She argues instead that Swift, recognizing the power of the popular press to transform cultural realities, turned his back on the elite to write for an inclusive audience, and in the process, annexed scandals to his fictionalized print alter ego that created a continual demand for works by or about this self-mythologized figure."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-238) and index.