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Swift's Parody »

Authors: Robert Phiddian, Phiddian Robert, Howard Erskine-Hill
ISBN-13: 9780521024778, ISBN-10: 0521024773
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Robert Phiddian

Book Synopsis

An exploration of parody in Swift's early prose, and in textual and cultural developments in Swift's Britain.

	Acknowledgments
	List of abbreviations
	Introduction	1
1	Theoretical orientations	6
	Three theories of quotation	6
	The idea of parody under erasure	13
	Illegitimate textuality: the pre-texts of Swiftian parody	19
2	Restoration enterprises and their rhetorics	24
	The burden of the past and a definition of restoration enterprise	24
	The restoration of true religion	30
	The ordering of scientific language and method	36
	Restoration enterprises in other realms of culture	40
	The structure of political ideology and discourse	43
	The sphere of orthodox utterance	46
3	Parody and the play of stigma in pamphlet warfare	52
	Intertextual insults: political debate and the sin of faction	54
	Defoe's Shortest Way With Dissenters: encoded triggers to parodic reading	56
	Swift and Collins: the play of parodic stigma	64
4	The problem of anarchic parody: An Argument against Abolishing Christianity	76
	Parody as homily: the pious solution	78
	Overdetermined silences: problems with the pious solution	82
	The Argument as an essay in Shaftesburian ridicule	86
5	Authority and the author: the disappearing centre in Swiftian parody	95
	Bickerstaff and authority	96
	An unsuccessful infanticide: Swift at the birth of the author	100
6	Entrance to A Tale of A Tub	110
	The pre-textuality of A Tale of A Tub	114
	A working model of A Tale of A Tub's pre-textuality	116
	Imitating an identity: John Locke, Thomas Vaughan, and the Hack	122
	Parody of the outer form: Dryden's Virgil	127
	Marvell and the practice of ridicule	132
7	A Tale of A Tub as an orphaned text	140
	Fictions of desertion, attempts to engender a self	140
	Appeals to authority: original rights and original systems	145
	Error and the apostolic succession: the allegorical tale	150
	Parodic self-exposure and the origin of the speaking voice	158
8	A Tale of A Tub as Swift's own illegitimate issue	172
	The evidence concerning Swift's attitude to A Tale of A Tub	173
	The 'Apology': text, commentary, or confidence trick?	181
	Conflicting ambitions: the desire for a negotiable text	192
	Conclusion: parodic disguise and the negotiability of A Tale of A Tub	197
	Select bibliography	204
	Index	217