Nathalie Zimpfer, The Sermons of Jonathan Swift: Silent Rhetoric
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) preached many sermons during a fifty-year career in the Church of Ireland, beginning with his appointment to the prebend of Kilroot, near Belfast, in 1695, and plateauing after 1713 when he became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Yet only a dozen of his sermons sur...
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2025
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| Riassunto: | Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) preached many sermons during a fifty-year career in the Church of Ireland, beginning with his appointment to the prebend of Kilroot, near Belfast, in 1695, and plateauing after 1713 when he became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Yet only a dozen of his sermons survives, published in eighteenth-century editions that Swift did not oversee. Swift inhabited a culture mired in denominational conflict, with religion and politics inseparable in the wake of the con... |
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