The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift : A Norton Critical Edition Paperback / softback
by Jonathan Swift
Edited by Claude (Yale University) Rawson, Ian (Australian National University, Canberra) Higgins
Part of the Norton Critical Editions series
Paperback / softback
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:944 pages, 1 map, illustrations
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:23/10/2009
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- ISBN:9780393930658
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:944 pages, 1 map, illustrations
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:23/10/2009
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- ISBN:9780393930658
