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Swift’s Landscape argues for a fundamental reevaluation of Jonathan Swift's place in eighteenth-century literary history. Combining history, biography, and literary criticism, Carole Fabricant restores both Swift's life and his writings to their proper landscape by emphasizing the influence of the author's Irish involvements and environs on his work.
“Swift’s landscape includes both his physical environment and the way it is imagined in his works. Carole Fabricant has achieved a fresh, illuminating approach to Swift by combining Ronald Paulson’s attention to the links between art and topography with Raymond Williams’s emphasis on the political implications of both. the most valuable part of the book is its effort to restore Swift ‘to his proper environs’ by demonstrating the depth and importance of his background. It offers a needed corrective to studies which treat Swift as a displaced Englishman—as a would-be neighbor of Pope or Bolingbroke, very much like them in standing and attitudes, who happened to live across the Irish Sea.” —The Eighteenth Century
Carole Fabricant is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She has published numerous scholarly articles on a variety of eighteenth-century topics.