Description
Book SynopsisScholars of colonialism, postcolonialism, Irish studies, Atlantic studies, Swift, and the history of the book will find Moore's eye-opening arguments original and compelling.
Trade ReviewSwift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution offers a fresh and engaging reading... Moore's study is thought-provoking and makes a number of important interventions in both the literary scholarship on the financial revolution and in Swift scholarship more generally. Current Intelligence 2010
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Introduction: Ireland, the Fiscal-Military State, and the Colonial Print Media
1. "God knows how we wretches came by that fashionable thing a national debt": The Dublin Book Trade and the Irish Financial Revolution
2. Banking on Print: The Bank of Ireland, the South Sea Bubble, and the Bailout
3. Arachne's Bowels: Scatology, Enlightenment, and Swift's Relations with the London Book Trade
4. "Money, the Great Divider of the World, has, by a strange Revolution, been the great Uniter of a Most divided People": From Minting to Printing in The Drapier's Letters
5. Devouring Posterity: A Modest Proposal, Empire, and Ireland's "Debt of the Nation"
6. "A Mart of Literature": The 1730s and the Rise of a Literary Public Sphere in Ireland
Epilogue: A Brand Identity Crisis in a National Literature?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
