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The Cambridge companion to Jonathan Swift / edited by Christopher Fox.

Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Cambridge companions to literaturePublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003Description: 283 sISBN:
  • 9780521802475
  • 0521002834
  • 9780521002837
  • 0521802474
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 828/.509 21
LOC classification:
  • PR3727
Other classification:
  • Gez Swift, Jonathan
Holdings
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Book Biblioteket HKR Biblioteket 820 Cambridge Available 11156000144557
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this 2003 volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and scholars. The thirteen essays explore crucial dimensions of Swift's life and works. As well as ensuring a broad coverage of Swift's writing - including early and later works as well as the better known and the lesser known - the Companion also offers a way into current critical and theoretical issues surrounding the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift's vexed relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland; and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicised age. The Companion offers a lucid introduction to these and other issues, and raises questions about Swift and his world. The volume features a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-265) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of illustrations
  • Chronology
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Swift's life
  • 2 Politics and history
  • 3 Swift the Irishman
  • 4 Swift's reading
  • 5 Swift and women
  • 6 Swift's satire and parody
  • 7 Money and economics
  • 8 Language and style
  • 9 Swift and religion
  • 10 Swift the poet
  • 11 A Tale of Tub and early prose
  • 12 Gulliver's Travels and the later writings
  • 13 Classic Swift
  • Further reading