“Swift’s landscape includes both his physical environment and the way it is imagined in his works. Carole Fabricant has achieved a fresh, illuminating approach to Swift by combining Ronald Paulson’s attention to the links between art and topography with Raymond Williams’s emphasis on the political implications of both. the most valuable part of the book is its effort to restore Swift ‘to his proper environs’ by demonstrating the depth and importance of his background. It offers a needed corrective to studies which treat Swift as a displaced Englishman—as a would-be neighbor of Pope or Bolingbroke, very much like them in standing and attitudes, who happened to live across the Irish Sea.” —The Eighteenth Century

"Fabricant shows Swift's landscape ('whether physical, aesthetic, mental, or ideological') to be specifically Irish. Derived from the geographical and political world of Ireland, Swift's landscapes are antagonistic to those of such contemporaries as Pope and Thomson, hostile and romantic illusion, fundamentally disordered...antipastoral and eccentric...a work that is interesting, fresh, and absolutely essential to the serious student of Swift." —Choice

“Swift’s Landscape is an exemplary book and its author is a rare scholar. Her intriguing arguments—which should renovate Swift criticism—are profoundly illuminating. [This is] a rich and detailed study: well research, well organized, and extremely well written.” —Eire-Ireland

Carole Fabricant is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She has published numerous scholarly articles on a variety of eighteenth-century topics.