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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Note to Reader

Introduction
Ireland, the Fiscal-Military State, and the Colonial Print Media

1 “God knows how we wretches came by that fashionable thing a national debt”: The Dublin Book Trade and the Irish Financial Revolution

2 Banking on Print: The Bank of Ireland, the South Sea Bubble, and the Bailout

3 Arachne’s Bowels: Scatology, Enlightenment, and Swift’s Relations with the London Book Trade

4 “Money, the Great Divider of the World, has, by a strange Revolution, been the great Uniter of a Most divided People”: From Minting to Printing in The Drapier’s Letters

5 Devouring Posterity: A Modest Proposal, Empire, and Ireland’s “Debt of the Nation”

6 “A Mart of Literature”: The 1730s and the Rise of a Literary Public Sphere in Ireland

Epilogue
A Brand Identity Crisis in a National Literature?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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