Nathalie Zimpfer, The Sermons of Jonathan Swift: Silent Rhetoric

Jonathan Swift was a career clergyman in the Church of Ireland, ordained a priest in 1695 and appointed Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin in 1713. Swift was professionally obliged to preach sermons, of course, but he did not publish any of them and only a dozen sermons attributed to him are...

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Julkaisussa:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/1718,
Päätekijä: Higgins, Ian
Aineistotyyppi: Article ou chapitre numérique
Kieli:Anglais
Julkaistu: XVII-XVIII 2025
Linkit:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Yhteenveto:Jonathan Swift was a career clergyman in the Church of Ireland, ordained a priest in 1695 and appointed Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin in 1713. Swift was professionally obliged to preach sermons, of course, but he did not publish any of them and only a dozen sermons attributed to him are extant, and of these eleven are securely canonical. In recent decades there has been renewed scholarly interest and a growing body of work on preaching and sermons in the religious and political hi...