Swift, the book, and the Irish financial revolution
Subtitle: satire and sovereignty in Colonial Ireland
By: Sean Moore.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801895074
Subjects: Swift, Jonathan, -- 1667-1745 -- Criticism and interpretation; Satire, English -- History and criticism; English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; National characteristics, Irish; Book industries and trade -- Ireland -- History; Ireland -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements; Ireland -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: God knows how we wretches came by that fashionable thing a national debt: the Dublin book trade and the Irish financial revolution; title: Banking on print: the Bank of Ireland, the South Sea bubble, and the Irish political public sphere; title: Arachne's bowels: scatology, enlightenment, and Swift's relations with the London book trade; title: 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; title: Devouring posterity: a modest proposal, empire, and Ireland's debt of the nation; title: A mart of literature: the 1730s and the rise of a literary public sphere in Ireland; title: Epilogue: a brand identity crisis in a national literature?