The significance of clothing imagery in selected works of Jonathan Swift

Abstract EN

This paper seeks to examine the significance of clothing imagery in selected works of Jonathan Swift.

In certain works, Swift uses clothing as a tool for exposure and protection.

Swift has also used clothing in manifesting his attitude toward mankind and showing the duality of human nature.

In the selected works, clothing functions in a way that symbolizes the tension between innocence and avarice, the ancients and the moderns and as a means of protection in the cases of identity crisis.