Book contents
- Jonathan Swift in Context
- Jonathan Swift in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Part I Personal
- Part II Publishing History and Legacy
- Part III Literary Background
- Part IV Genres
- Part V The External World
- Part VI Social and Intellectual Topics
- Chapter 35 Philosophy
- Chapter 36 Science
- Chapter 37 Race
- Chapter 38 Material Culture
- Chapter 39 Gender
- Chapter 40 Colonialism
- Chapter 41 The Body
- Chapter 42 Demography
- Chapter 43 Food
- Chapter 44 Economics
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 42 - Demography
from Part VI - Social and Intellectual Topics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 May 2024
- Jonathan Swift in Context
- Jonathan Swift in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Part I Personal
- Part II Publishing History and Legacy
- Part III Literary Background
- Part IV Genres
- Part V The External World
- Part VI Social and Intellectual Topics
- Chapter 35 Philosophy
- Chapter 36 Science
- Chapter 37 Race
- Chapter 38 Material Culture
- Chapter 39 Gender
- Chapter 40 Colonialism
- Chapter 41 The Body
- Chapter 42 Demography
- Chapter 43 Food
- Chapter 44 Economics
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Population and Irish confessional demographics feature heavily in Swift’s political pamphlets. His writing on these topics helped shape popular perceptions of Ireland in the eighteenth century, a period that witnessed the emergence of an Irish diaspora across the British Atlantic world. This chapter considers the role that confessional demography played in Swift’s Irish political writings and the later influence of those writings on the formation of early anti-Irish nativism in colonial America. This first section looks at the role of demographic anxieties in A Modest Proposal. The second section addresses Swift’s concerns about religious dissent in Ireland. The third and final section explores the influence of Swift’s writings in colonial America.
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- Jonathan Swift in Context , pp. 335 - 342Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024