The ClosetPub Date : 2020-05-19DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvrs9154.10
D. Bobker
{"title":"Lady Acheson’s Privy for Two","authors":"D. Bobker","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvrs9154.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrs9154.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers a new view of Jonathan Swift's “excremental vision” by approaching it not as a personal quirk or neurotic symptom but as a perceptive critique of the excretory autonomy that flushable water closets would soon come to embody. It talks about the country-house poets that had traditionally celebrated abundant fields and communal feasts in the great hall as signs of Swift's generosity. It confirms that in Swift's mock country-house poem “Panegyric on the Dean,” he imagined the pair of his-and-hers privies built on Lord and Lady Acheson's country estate. The chapter also analyzes why the poem is at odds with the natural cycles of regeneration and feudal hospitality that it sent the mind away from the earth, the cosmos, and other people in a burlesque of closet prayer. It mentions that Swift tried to preempt Lady Acheson's desire to circulate the poem by casting her as the speaker in his first scatological poem.","PeriodicalId":188115,"journal":{"name":"The Closet","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127778630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The ClosetPub Date : 1990-01-31DOI: 10.3138/9781442676411-002
D. Smith, N. Ward
{"title":"1. The Way In","authors":"D. Smith, N. Ward","doi":"10.3138/9781442676411-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442676411-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":188115,"journal":{"name":"The Closet","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116671335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：