Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home

G. Douglas Atkins is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Kansas, USA, where he taught for 44 years. The winner of several awards for outstanding teaching, he is the author of eighteen books and co-editor of three others, including Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing and six on T.S. Eliot. He is now at work on three other books.

"In an engaging, accessible manner, G. Douglas Atkins re-examines Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in light of Atkins's understanding of the Christian concept of the Incarnation, an understanding deeply influenced by his study of T.S. Eliot. Atkins' well-written study will likely appeal to a wide audience including Swift, Joyce, and Eliot scholars, as well as academic readers more generally." - Bruce Bashford, Associate Professor of English Emeritus, Stony Brook University, USA

• 1. Satire, Reading, and Forms of Separation and Union 2. The Gift Half Understood 3. The Flight of Man, the Fall of Icarus and Phaeton 4. The Flying or Floating Island: Lemuel Gulliver and Ideas Disembodied 5. Aesthetics as Asceticism: Stephen Dedalus's Quest of Transcendence 6. It's All About Caring and Not-Caring at the Same Time: Or, Home Is Where You Start From