Research Catalog

Title

Jonathan Swift : a collection of critical essays / edited by Claude Rawson.

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rawson, Claude Julien.

Description

iv, 307 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

New century views ; 10

Uniform Title

New century views ; 10.

Subject

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-307).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Satire and the novel -- Radical satire and the realistic novel / John Lawlor -- Pt. 2. Two views of personae -- Order and cruelty / Claude Rawson -- Swift's satire: rules of the game / Robert C. Elliott -- Pt. 3. Ancients and moderns: a Tale of a Tub -- Fathers and sons: Swift's a Tale of a Tub / Michael Seidel -- Text, "text," and Swift's a Tale of a Tub / Marcus Walsh -- The splitting of Humanism: Bentley, Swift, and the English battle of the books / John F. Tinkler -- Pt. 4. Poems -- Gay, Swift, and the nymphs of Drury-lane / Christine Rees -- Swift as Lyricist: the Poems to Stella and his career in satire / Richard Feingold -- Feminism and the Augustans: some readings and problems / Penelope Wilson -- Pt. 5. Politics -- Swift's politics: a preface to Gulliver's Travels / Ian Higgins -- Pt. 6. Gulliver's Travels -- Parables of the younger son: Swift and the containment of desire / Michael McKeon -- Swift's satire on "science" and the structure of Gulliver's Travels / Douglas Lane Patey -- The unity of Swift's "voyage to Laputa": structure as meaning in Utopian fiction / Jenny Mezciems -- Gulliver among the horses / A. D. Nuttall -- Pt. 7. Ireland -- The last proposals / Oliver W. Ferguson.

ISBN

0130912999

LCCN

^^^94004782^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library