Claude Rawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1177056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claude Rawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claude |
| FAMILY NAME | Rawson |
| SIGNATURE | RAWSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Gulliver and the Gentle Reader
The satire in Swift’s anatomy of the human animal in Gulliver’s Travels is unusually radical, comprehensive and aggressive. In the first three books it conventionally attacks humans for what they do, but at the end of book III and throughout book IV humans are attacked for what they are. From the beginning, the reader is wrongfooted by an unusually quarrelsome intimacy on the part of the narrative, and a constantly shifting instability in the reg…
Mapping Mythologies
Claude Rawson in conversation with Marjorie Perloff
PREFACEClaude Rawson has been called 'perhaps the best living scholar in eighteenth-century satire, and perhaps of British satire itself', and there is frequent reference in the literature to 'Rawson’s unassailable pre-eminence as Swift’s most challenging, exciting, and erudite modern critic'. In the words of Robert Alter, 'What Rawson bracingly demonstrates is that humanistic inquiry still can be, and deserves to be, an empirically grounded acti…
Swift and Others
Swift's Angers
War and the Epic Mania in England and France
The final version of Paradise Lost and the first version of Boileau’s Lutrin appeared within a few days of each other in July 1674, one of the unsung coincidences of literary history. Both mark a turning point in the literary history of grand styles and of anti-war feeling in Europe. The last great classical epic, and the first poem in a high mock-heroic genre, share an avoidance of the central epic theme of military carnage, which Milton disavow…
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important…
Gulliver's Travels
‘Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.’ In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but how far can we rely on a narrator whose identity is elusive and whoses inventiveness is self-evident? Gulliver’s Travels purports to be a travel book, a…
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
William Cowper
English Satire and the Satiric Tradition
The Character of Swift's Satire
The nature, style, and targets of Swift's witty, biting, and sometimes violent satire are critically investigated in this collection of essays. They portray Swift's social criticism in the light of his involvement in the politics of Anglo-Irish relations, and trace his literary roots, describing his connection with the Renaissance and studying his use of cliches and rhetoric
Splendors and Miseries of Textual Intercourse
rT _HE HONOR being invited to write a commentary on an issue this distinguished journal is one that I cannot resist. I must, however, put a few cards on the table. I am not by inclination or professional training greatly devoted to the theoretical discussion literature, and for me the Problems Literary Theory are as nothing to the one problem why there is so much it about. I am also one those who, as Robert Alter put it in the Preface to Art Bibl…
A Provision of Human Nature
Order and Misrule
This essay is concerned with some important trends in the study of eighteenth-century literature, as exemplified in a number of recent books.' Some of these books themselves consist in part or in whole of discussions of the trends which are my subject here. Others, especially Martin C. Battestin's The Providence of Wit and Max Byrd's Visits to Bedlam, are distinguished illustrations of tendencies and methods in recent scholarship, rather than com…
Joseph Addison's Sociable Animal
Poems on Affairs of State
Nature's Dance of Death
The Politics of Drama in Augustan England
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The Politics of Drama in Augustan England
Nature's Dance of Death
Poems on Affairs of State
Joseph Addison's Sociable Animal
Order and Misrule
This essay is concerned with some important trends in the study of eighteenth-century literature, as exemplified in a number of recent books.' Some of these books themselves consist in part or in whole of discussions of the trends which are my subject here. Others, especially Martin C. Battestin's The Providence of Wit and Max Byrd's Visits to Bedlam, are distinguished illustrations of tendencies and methods in recent scholarship, rather than com…
A Provision of Human Nature
Splendors and Miseries of Textual Intercourse
rT _HE HONOR being invited to write a commentary on an issue this distinguished journal is one that I cannot resist. I must, however, put a few cards on the table. I am not by inclination or professional training greatly devoted to the theoretical discussion literature, and for me the Problems Literary Theory are as nothing to the one problem why there is so much it about. I am also one those who, as Robert Alter put it in the Preface to Art Bibl…
The Character of Swift's Satire
The nature, style, and targets of Swift's witty, biting, and sometimes violent satire are critically investigated in this collection of essays. They portray Swift's social criticism in the light of his involvement in the politics of Anglo-Irish relations, and trace his literary roots, describing his connection with the Renaissance and studying his use of cliches and rhetoric
English Satire and the Satiric Tradition
William Cowper
Gulliver's Travels
‘Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.’ In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but how far can we rely on a narrator whose identity is elusive and whoses inventiveness is self-evident? Gulliver’s Travels purports to be a travel book, a…
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important…
War and the Epic Mania in England and France
The final version of Paradise Lost and the first version of Boileau’s Lutrin appeared within a few days of each other in July 1674, one of the unsung coincidences of literary history. Both mark a turning point in the literary history of grand styles and of anti-war feeling in Europe. The last great classical epic, and the first poem in a high mock-heroic genre, share an avoidance of the central epic theme of military carnage, which Milton disavow…
Swift's Angers
Swift and Others
Claude Rawson in conversation with Marjorie Perloff
PREFACEClaude Rawson has been called 'perhaps the best living scholar in eighteenth-century satire, and perhaps of British satire itself', and there is frequent reference in the literature to 'Rawson’s unassailable pre-eminence as Swift’s most challenging, exciting, and erudite modern critic'. In the words of Robert Alter, 'What Rawson bracingly demonstrates is that humanistic inquiry still can be, and deserves to be, an empirically grounded acti…
Mapping Mythologies
Gulliver and the Gentle Reader
The satire in Swift’s anatomy of the human animal in Gulliver’s Travels is unusually radical, comprehensive and aggressive. In the first three books it conventionally attacks humans for what they do, but at the end of book III and throughout book IV humans are attacked for what they are. From the beginning, the reader is wrongfooted by an unusually quarrelsome intimacy on the part of the narrative, and a constantly shifting instability in the reg…
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