“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...
From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language
Draws on discoveries made in the past three decades to paint a new portrait of the satirist, speculating on his parentage, love life, and relationships while claiming that the public image he projected was intentionally misleading.
Samuel Beckett has capitalised upon the tradition. In Beckett's later novels hundreds of paragraphs record ennui so engagingly that the reader asks, can it really be so boring if it yields these diverting sentences?
Presents a collection of essays analyzing Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels, including a chronology of the author's works and life.
... Hessy is distressed about “two or three relapse's” Molkin has had since she and Moll had come to Celbridge (C, ... though he writes that Gulliver's dignity was hurt because he was being used by the maid of honor merely as a toy.
... Hugh (archbishop of Armagh) 18,29,96, 316–317, 400 “Bounce to Fop” 42 Bowls, Sir John 317 Boyer, Abel 317 Boyle, Charles. ... See Gulliver, Mary Burton Burton, Samuel 319–320 Bushe, Arthur 73,313,320 Butler (character) 65 Butler, ...
Contains the complete texts of nearly all of the writings of Jonathan Swift along with background materials and critical essays of Swift's work by a number of notes authors.
Building upon recent research on the history of women, this book examines Swift, both as a man and writer, in terms of women: woman as intimates, acquaintances, subjects of satire, and those who have written about him.
This book offers an accessible, single-volume introduction to a wider range of Jonathan Swift's writing than is usually covered in such treatments of him. Primarily a work of biographically-inflected literary...