Abstract

Placing Swift in Grub Street and Ireland, scholars are revealing an intransigent Church-of-Ireland clergyman whose sectarian and ethnic hostilities resist English political categories like Whig, Tory, and Jacobite. Even monumental editions capture the uncertain, contested terrain he inhabited, revealing a self-proclaimed Ancient who is startlingly modern.

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