A Preface To Swift
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A Preface To Swift
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Author : Keith Crook
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-15
A Preface To Swift written by Keith Crook and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Jonathan Swift's moral and political satires astonished his contemporaries and still have the power to disturb, with their compelling images and unsettling turns of argument, and to delight, with their charm and inventive wit. A Preface to Swift examines the complex appeal of this fierce critic of oppression. While thematically arranged, the text follows a broadly chronological account of Swift's life to show his development as a writer from the prolific and inventive iconoclast to the mature satirist whose enduring memory of past events produced warm friendship as well as strong resentment. It considers in detail his engagement with the corruption of over-secure politicians and his opposition to the easy rationalism of free-thinking pundits. Gulliver's Travels is shown to be a coherent critique of eighteenth-century ideas of science, education and politics in which the order of the books ('the progress of the fable') is highly significant for its whole meaning. While this is a major focus, Keith Crook also discusses a wide range of Swift's other works, including his early satires, his political writings, his poems and his letters. Detailed chronological charts place his life and works in the political and cultural context, and illustrations have been chosen with commentaries to extend the reader's sense of Swift's connections with London, Ireland and his contemporaries. This will be a particularly useful introduction to students who are studying satire as a genre; the early eighteenth-century literary, scientific, philosophical and political context; the representation of women; the political relation of Ireland to England; and the position of the artist within society, especially in connection with the levers of power.
Selections From The Prose Writings Of Jonathan Swift
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Author : Jonathan Swift
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Selections From The Prose Writings Of Jonathan Swift written by Jonathan Swift and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.
Swift An Introduction
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Author : Ricardo Quintana
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1979
Swift An Introduction written by Ricardo Quintana and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
Swift And His Circle
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Author : Robert W. Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
Swift And His Circle written by Robert W. Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with Irish literature categories.
Selections From The Prose Writings Of Jonathan Swift With Preface And Notes By S Lane Poole
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Author : Jonathan Swift
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
Selections From The Prose Writings Of Jonathan Swift With Preface And Notes By S Lane Poole written by Jonathan Swift and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.
Swift S Angers
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Author : Claude Rawson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-23
Swift S Angers written by Claude Rawson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
A study of the brilliant satirist and polemicist Jonathan Swift, by one of the foremost scholars of our time.
Jonathan Swift
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Author : Eugene Hammond
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Jonathan Swift written by Eugene Hammond and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in (along with its companion, Jonathan Swift: Our Dean) aspires to be the most accurate and engaging critical biography of Jonathan Swift ever published. It builds on the thorough research of Irvin Ehrenpreis’s highly regarded 1962–1983 three-volume biography, but reinterprets Swift’s life and works by reassessing his childhood, stressing his exuberance, honestly portraying his intense affection for Esther Johnson (he called her “saucebox” and not “Stella” when she was in her twenties), and not projecting Swift’s later-in-life angry behavior back onto his first forty-seven years.
The Life Of Jonathan Swift
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Author : Thomas Lockwood
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2023-07-26
The Life Of Jonathan Swift written by Thomas Lockwood and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Presents a fresh account of the life history and creative imagination of Jonathan Swift Classic satires such as Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub express radical positions, yet were written by the most conservative of men. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin and spent most of his life in Ireland, never traveling outside the British Isles. An Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman, he was a major political and religious figure whose career was primarily clerical, not literary. Although much is known about Swift, in many ways he remains an enigma. He was admired as an Irish patriot yet was contemptuous of the Irish. He was both secretive and self-dramatizing. His talent for friendship was matched by his skill for making enemies. He hated the English but yearned to live in England. The Life of Jonathan Swift explores the writing life and personal history of the foremost satirist in the English language. Accessible and engaging, this critical biography brings Swift’s writing and creative sensibility into the narrative of his life. Author Thomas Lockwood provides the historical and modern critical context of Swift’s prose satires and poetry, as well as his political journalism, essays, manuscripts, and personal correspondence. Throughout the book, biographically contextualized descriptions of Swift’s most famous works help readers better understand both the writing and the writer. Provides critical profiles of Gulliver’s Travels, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, Drapier’s Letters, and Swift’s other famous works Offers insights into Swift’s relationships with Esther Johnson, “Stella,” and Esther Vanhomrigh, “Vanessa” Highlights Swift’s poetry and how verse writing was a vital part of his creative being Summarizes and contextualizes lesser-known works such as The Conduct of the Allies Addresses the historic critical bias against comedy or satire as inferior forms of art, both in Swift’s lifetime and the present The Life of Jonathan Swift is an essential resource for general readers of literature and literary biography, university instructors and researchers, and undergraduate students taking courses in English literature.
Swift An Introduction
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Author : richardo quintana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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Jonathan Swift And The Eighteenth Century Book
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Author : Paddy Bullard
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-18
Jonathan Swift And The Eighteenth Century Book written by Paddy Bullard and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with Design categories.
An account of Swift's dealings with books and texts, showing how the business of print was transformed during his lifetime.