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- Title
A Leaning Tower : Jonathan Swift and Virginia Woolf in Henry Green's Loving.
- Authors
Miller, Eric
- Abstract
Henry Green's 1945 novel Loving, set in 1941 in neutral Ireland among the mostly English servants of the fictional Big House, Kinalty Castle, engages intensely with the literary legacies of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) and Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). Green gives the addled nanny of the household the name Miss Swift. This gesture is only the most obvious sign that the novel reconsiders Jonathan Swift both as an influential imaginative writer and as a spokesperson of the near-extinct Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy. The focal point for Green's homage to and critique of Jonathan Swift is a folly on the Kinalty grounds: a big eighteenth-century dovecote crafted in the likeness of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, at the base of which Miss Swift narrates a beast-fable. The same structure is central to Green's parallel homage to and critique of his friend, inspiration and publisher, the late Virginia Woolf, author of the 1940 essay "The Leaning Tower."
- Subjects
LOVING (Book : Green); SWIFT, Jonathan, 1667-1745; WOOLF, Virginia, 1882-1941; DOVECOTES; PROTESTANTS
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2022, Vol 45, Issue 1, p56
- ISSN
0703-1459
- Publication type
Article