Reading Swift assembles 27 lectures delivered at the Seventh Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, which was held in celebration of the Dean’s 350th birthday at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in June 2017 under the patronage of the Irish ambassador in Germany. The new volume testifies to an extraordinary spectrum of research interests in the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, and his works.It follows the tried and tested format of its predecessors, grouping the essays in eight sections: biographical problems; bibliographical and canonical studies; historical and religious as well as political, economic, and social issues; poetry; Gulliver’s Travels; and reception studies. Reading Swift is not only indicative of the élan vital, which has been such a distinctive feature of Swift scholarship in the past thirty-five years, under the aegis of the Ehrenpreis Centre it has also become a prestigious, indeed an invaluable, forum for the learned debate on all questions relating to the life and works of THE Dean, the only Dean in the history of Ireland.weiterlesen