Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings : Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism

Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings : Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism
ISBN-10
0393930653
ISBN-13
9780393930658
Series
Jonathan Swift
Category
Literary Collections / General
Pages
904
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Jonathan Swift

Description

“Contexts” features a generous selection of contemporary materials, among them Swift's letters, autobiographical documents, and personal writings.

“Criticism” provides readers with a wide chronological and thematic range of scholarly interpretations, divided into two sections. The first, “1745–1940,” includes assessments by Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Makepeace Thackeray, D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, F. R. Leavis, and André Breton, among others. The second, “After 1940,” is by subject and collects critical discussions of A Tale of the Tub, the poems, the English and Irish politics, and Gulliver's Travels, by Hugh Kenner, Marcus Walsh, Irvin Ehrenpreis, Penelope Wilson, Derek Mahon, S. J. Connolly, George Orwell, R. S. Crane, Jenny Mezciems, Ian Higgins, and Claude Rawson.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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