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| Titre : | Swift, Utrecht and Ireland (2015) |
| Auteurs : | Matthew GERTKEN, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Eighteenth-Century Ireland (vol. 30 2015) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 36-61 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | |
| Résumé : | Jonathan Swift's views on foreign policy remain greatly neglected in the debate over his politics and political identity. The limited discussions of the topic naturally place it in the context of the most Anglocentric period of his life when he advocated the Peace of Utrecht under the Oxford ministry. It is hardly surprising then that scholars have not investigated how Ireland affected his foreign policy thinking. Yet the question is important. As this article will show, Ireland provides a useful lens through which to examine the evolution of Swift's foreign policy thinking from 1690s to 1714. Swift saw Ireland as a potential threat to England's ability to maintain a balance of power in Europe first because of Jacobitism, then because of the putative misrepresentations of Irish Whigs and dissenters. His debate over the peace with Archbishop King of Dublin illuminates both his foreign policy thinking and its relation to Ireland |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Matthew Gertken |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
