Jonathan Swift in the Company of WomenOxford University Press, 07.12.2006 - 238 Seiten Jonathan Swift was the subject of gossip and criticism in his own time concerning his relations with women and his representations of them in his writings. For over twenty years he regarded Esther Johnson, "Stella," as "his most valuable friend," yet he is reputed never to have seen her alone. From his time to our own there has been speculation that the two were secretly married--since their relationship seemed so inexplicable then and now. For thirteen of the years that Swift seemed committed to Stella as the acknowledged woman in his life, he maintained a clandestine--but apparently also nonsexual--relationship with another woman, Esther Van Homrigh, or "Vanessa." Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women looks again at these much-examined relationships and at others that reveal Swift as a man who enjoyed the company of a number of women as pupils and as ministrants to his various needs. Swift, a man with a complex private life, was also a writer whose satiric portraits of women could be unsparing. While Swift often criticized women for frivolous pastimes and idle chatter, his most notorious texts on women image their bodies as loathsome: as he once wrote in a serious political tract, a woman is a "nauseous, unwholesome carcass." Such representations cross a line by showing a repugnance for women as a sex, the biological other. They have led, not surprisingly, to repeated charges of misogyny, an issue that Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women addresses at some length. This first book-length treatment of Swift and women comprehensively examines Swift's attitude toward women in all their manifestations in his work and life: as intimates, acquaintances, protégés, wives, mothers, nurses, disobedient daughters, young women who marry older men, and--finally--as poets and critics. |
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... desire for order manifests itself everywhere in Swift, from a scrupulous adherence to “proper” behaviors on a personal level to the categorizing and controlling of social groups wherever possible. He strenuously opposed the ...
... desire for order manifests itself everywhere in Swift, from a scrupulous adherence to “proper” behaviors on a personal level to the categorizing and controlling of social groups wherever possible. He strenuously opposed the ...
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... She delighted him with love, but did not tempt him with lust; she pleased him with discourse and sweet societie, yet provoked him to no libidinous desire. —Thomas Heywood, Gynaikeion 1 Love Dramas The great statesmen who fretted their busy.
... She delighted him with love, but did not tempt him with lust; she pleased him with discourse and sweet societie, yet provoked him to no libidinous desire. —Thomas Heywood, Gynaikeion 1 Love Dramas The great statesmen who fretted their busy.
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... desire is little better than a distemper, and therefore men are not to blame in looking after a cure. I find myself hugely infected with this malady” (W 1:124). The language of disease is markedly unfelicitous, but Swift seems to be ...
... desire is little better than a distemper, and therefore men are not to blame in looking after a cure. I find myself hugely infected with this malady” (W 1:124). The language of disease is markedly unfelicitous, but Swift seems to be ...
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... desire Swift cannot conceal his exasperation. Like some contemporary writers of advice manuals, and like the majority of those who satirize women at this time, Swift prefers enumerating female defects to any other form of engagement ...
... desire Swift cannot conceal his exasperation. Like some contemporary writers of advice manuals, and like the majority of those who satirize women at this time, Swift prefers enumerating female defects to any other form of engagement ...
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