{"product_id":"9781611491074","title":"Swift as Priest and Satirist","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the most tendentious and enduring questions of Swift scholarship concerns his faith. What did Swift believe? Was his career in the Church primarily a means of political and social advancement? Did Swift subscribe to a coherent theology, or were his beliefs simply expedient? How did the turbulent streams of eighteenth-century Anglican and Protestant theologies influence Swift's satiric vision? In the light of recent work on his tenure in the Church of Ireland, this volume presents a timely critical appraisal of Swift's role as a priest vis-á-vis his identity as one of the Enlightenment's premier satirists. The essays in this volume cover four broad categories: Swift's relationship to the Church of Ireland and to the bruising world of eighteenth-century theological discourse in general; how Swift represents religious figures and controversies in his poetry and prose; the relationships between religious and literary genres; and the links between Swift's satires and contemporary religious, philosophical, and scientific discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Delaware Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037563240688,"sku":"9781611491074","price":51.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611491074_p0.jpg?v=1763840149","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611491074","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}