"Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most brilliant satire, A Tale of a Tub, the aggressive vitality of the narrative is designed, for all the intensity of its sting, never to lose its cool. Yet S…
"Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most brilliant satire, A Tale of a Tub, the aggressive vitality of the narrative is designed, for all the intensity of its sting, never to lose its cool. Yet S…
A detailed portrait of the man behind "Gulliver's Travels" traces his early loss of a parent, the contradictions that marked his character, and his achievements as a political writer and dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.
A detailed portrait of the man behind "Gulliver's Travels" traces his early loss of a parent, the contradictions that marked his character, and his achievements as a political writer and dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. "One of Europe's most important literary figures…
The purpose of this volume is to make as accessible as possible to the modern reader the best and most characteristic writings of Jonathan Swift.-Pref. This volume contains the complete and definitive texts of virtually all of Swift's major works, as well as a generous selection…
Contains the complete texts of nearly all of the writings of Jonathan Swift along with background materials and critical essays of Swift's work by a number of notes authors.
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Little People and Big People -- Chapter 3. Nameless Moderns: Science, Miracles and Faith -- Chapter 4. A Realistic Utopia, and Human Passions -- Chapter 5. Heroic Ancients -- Chapter 6. Rational Horses and Humans -- Chapter 7. European Imper…
