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The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) Book

Presents a range of Swift's writing, including not only the major literary prose works but also substantial poetic and political writings. This title includes a selection of contemporary materials, along with criticism, a chronology and bibliography.Read More

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  • Foyles

    “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.

  • Blackwell

    This Norton Critical Edition is the only one-volume edition that presents the full range of Swift's writing, including not only the major literary prose works-Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of the Tub-but also substantial poetic...

  • Pickabook

    Jonathan Swift, Claude Rawson (Editor), Ian Higgins (Editor)

  • 0393930653
  • 9780393930658
  • Higgins Rawson
  • 23 October 2009
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 904
  • 1
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