{"id":3256,"date":"2020-09-08T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T10:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2020-09-08T11:49:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T10:49:15","slug":"declan-gilmore-kavanagh-guests-edits-journal-issue-on-jonathan-swift-and-queerness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/09\/08\/declan-gilmore-kavanagh-guests-edits-journal-issue-on-jonathan-swift-and-queerness\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Gilmore-Kavanagh guests edits journal issue on &#8216;Jonathan Swift and Queerness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/people\/89\/gilmore-kavanagh-declan\">Dr Declan Gilmore-Kavanagh<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies, has edited a special issue of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsecs.org.uk\/journal\/\">J<em>ournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies<\/em><\/a> on &#8216;Jonathan Swift and Queerness&#8217;, published this month.<\/p>\n<p>In raising the topic of Jonathan Swift and queerness, we might just as plausibly ask: what is not queer about Swift? From the strangely erotic spectacle of libidinous Yahoos in <i>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/i>\u00a0(1726) to his gruesome suggestion to cannibalise Irish children in\u00a0<i>A Modest Proposal<\/i> (1729), Swift&#8217;s satire singularly bristles with queer potential. The six articles in this supplement variously offer queer theoretical and pedagogical engagements with Swift&#8217;s work, while also, importantly, foregrounding how Swift&#8217;s writing was queer and queering in its own time.<\/p>\n<p>Further details about the issue can be found on the publisher&#8217;s website, here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1754-0208.12701\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1754-0208.12701<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Declan Gilmore-Kavanagh, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies, has edited a special issue of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies on &#8216;Jonathan Swift and Queerness&#8217;, published &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/09\/08\/declan-gilmore-kavanagh-guests-edits-journal-issue-on-jonathan-swift-and-queerness\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[230632,124,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}