Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home: Quests of Transcendence and the Sin of Separation

by G. Douglas Atkins

Book Overview

Consisting of six essayistic chapters, this book centers on two seminal yet not often associated Irish texts: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916). Practicing a comparative way of reading indebted to T.S. Eliot, Atkins traces the patterns of response the protagonists of these works show in leaving home and separating themselves from family and friends. Both Lemuel Gulliver and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137399813
• ISBN13: 9781137399816
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 67 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"