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This thematically arranged text follows a chronological account of Jonathan Swift's life. It focuses primarily on "Gulliver's Travels", but also discusses other works including early satires, political writings, poems and letters. Detailed chronological charts place Swift's life and works in political and cultural context, and illustrations and commentaries highlight Swift's connections with London, Ireland and his contemporaries. The book also focuses on the Irish dimension in Swift's life, as well as his writing to and about women, and short biographies of leading figures of Swift's day are cross-referenced, to provide a better understanding of the writer and his times.

Table of Contents:
Part 1: The Writer and his Setting 1. A Brief Life of Swift A sketch of the man and of some significant issues The Anglo-Irish 'Ascendancy' The formative context for Swift Secretary to the Temple, 1689-1699 Literary and priestly ambitions First satiric works: "The Battle of the Books" and "A Tale of a Tub" The wit and the ministers, 1700-1714 The pull of England London life: "The Journal of Stella" Archbishop King and Dean Swift, 1713-1729 The genesis of "Gulliver's Travels" Choice friends 2. Politics and the Individual Church and monarch Political parties and issue groups Swift's change of direction Swift's definitions of party Harley's patronage St. John and Harley "The Examiner" "The Conduct of the Allies" End of the ministry Preferment: Bolingbroke and Oxford's treatment of Swift Bolingbroke on Swift Oxford and Swift Oxford's contribution to politics 3. Swift's London and Ireland Swift's audience The reading public and literary taste Literacy The coffee house London illustrated (1708-1714) "Bickerstaff Papers", 1708 "The Tatler", 1709 "A Description of the Morning", 1709 "A Description of a City Shower", 1710 Search for community: Tatlers and Scriblerians Break with the Whigs Swift breaks with Steele and Addison The Scriblerus club Swift's friends: Gay and Arbuthnot The Uses of Exile Home thoughts from Ireland (1710-1737) Ireland's claim "A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture", 1720 "The Draiper's Letters", 1724, and Lord Lieutenant Carteret "Gulliver's Travels", 1726 Bolingbroke as a formative influence Pope and the elucidation of "Gulliver's Travels" Philosophy versus satire The published correspondence with Pope "A Modest Proposal", 1729 4. Women and the Body Swift's relationships with women Domination and friendship Pains of friendship Female friends The bounds of decency Female schooling Sexual intimacy Poems to Stella "To Stella, Visiting me in my Sickness", 1720? "To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed his Poems", 1720? Vanessa at arm's length The question of morbidity and scatological coarseness The morbid poems "Death and Daphne" "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed" The scatological poems "The Lady's Dressing room", 1732 "Stephon and Chloe", 1731 "Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter to Dr Sheridan", 1718 5. Swift and Contemporary Ideas The Royal Society Travelogues and 'my cousin Dampier' Locke: society and contract Science and language Locke: empirical philosophy Language in "Gulliver's Travels" Imagination in "Gullivers's Travels" The progress of the fable Part 2: Critical Survey 6. Critical Survey of Selected Passages Poetry Extract from "Baucis and Philemon", 1709 Extract from "The Author Upon Himself", 1714 Extract from "On Poetry: A Rhapsody", 1733 Prose "A Tale of a Tub", 1704 "Gulliver's Travels", 1726 Book I extract Book II extract Book III extract Book IV extract "A Modest Proposal", 1729 Part 3: Reference Section 7. Biographical Notes Gazeteer Commentary on Illustrations Bibliography Index

Review :
"This is an advanced introduction to Swift which combines several skills; those of the biographer, historian and critic." "Irish studies review", 1999


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780582289789
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 139 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0582289785
  • Publisher Date: 03 Sep 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Preface Books
  • Weight: 363 gr


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