Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by Claude Julien Rawson and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays reflecting both older and newer perspectives. Contains an introduction by the editor (a respected scholar in the field), a chronology of the author's life, and an annotated bibliography.
Download or read book Critical Essays on Jonathan Swift written by Frank Palmeri and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palmeri's selection of essays, all from the 1980s, include only those never before reprinted or never printed in earlier collections. Three, by Melvin New, Frank Stringfellow, and Everett Zimmerman, were written especially for this volume. The selections are divided into five sections: Swift's life and attitudes toward writing; Gulliver's Travels; A Tale of a Tub and 18th-century literature; Swift's poetry; and Swift's nonfiction prose. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Swift a Collection of Critical Essays written by Ernest Lee Tuveson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth century critics have rediscovered in Jonathan Swift an outspoken commentary on the complex and ultimately unsolvable mystery of human nature. The essays collected here document the process of the reversal which has rescued Swift from the disgust and near-hatred of earlier readers. Several paths to re-evaluation are followed by these critics. Through careful research they uncover the facts of Swift's political and social involvement and his part in the philosophical battles of his age. Their efforts reveal and artist who transcended the ordinary, who recast the moral climate of an age into the allegorical voyages of Lemuel Gulliver. The second part is an analysis of Swift's method. A third approach considers each part of Swift's masterpiece in the context of the whole oeuvre and the whole man. Is Gulliver Swift? Do the Yahoos really represent mankind? Is Houyhnhnmland really the perfect society? The critical reinstatement of a great author is a dramatic process and one that illuminates modern criticism at its creative best. -- From publisher's description.
Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as the author of ""Gulliver's Travels"", Jonathan Swift is one of literature's great satirists. Born and educated in Ireland, Swift became a politician and clergyman in England, where he wrote essays, pamphlets, poems, and fiction that addressed the political issues and social conditions of his time. In ""Gulliver's Travels"", he introduced the allegorical settings of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the island of the Houyhnhnms, as well as the term 'yahoos' in a playful, but dark, satirical reflection of humankind. This addition to ""Bloom's Classic Critical Views"" includes a chronology, an index, and an introductory essay by Yale University professor Harold Bloom.
Download or read book Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Companion to Jonathan Swift written by Paul J. DeGategno and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive alphabetical reference to the life and work of Jonathan Swift.
Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by William Duncan Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by John Churton Collins and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twentieth Century Interpretations of Gulliver s Travels written by Frank Brady and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1968 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays and commentary on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels.
Download or read book Gulliver s Travels Jonathan Swift New Edition written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of essays analyzing Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels, including a chronology of the author's works and life.
Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by Ian Higgins and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book's focus is the major satires upon which Swift's literary reputation principally rest including 'A Tale of Tub', 'An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity', 'Gulliver's Travels', 'A Modest Proposal' and more. This critical analysis highlights the extremism of Swiftian satire and its off page menaces.
Download or read book The Writings of Jonathan Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1973 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the complete and definitive texts of virtually all of Swift's major works, as well as a generous selection of his poetry and other writings.
Download or read book The Life of Jonathan Swift written by Thomas Lockwood and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a fresh account of the life history and creative imagination of Jonathan Swift Classic satires such as Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub express radical positions, yet were written by the most conservative of men. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin and spent most of his life in Ireland, never traveling outside the British Isles. An Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman, he was a major political and religious figure whose career was primarily clerical, not literary. Although much is known about Swift, in many ways he remains an enigma. He was admired as an Irish patriot yet was contemptuous of the Irish. He was both secretive and self-dramatizing. His talent for friendship was matched by his skill for making enemies. He hated the English but yearned to live in England. The Life of Jonathan Swift explores the writing life and personal history of the foremost satirist in the English language. Accessible and engaging, this critical biography brings Swift’s writing and creative sensibility into the narrative of his life. Author Thomas Lockwood provides the historical and modern critical context of Swift’s prose satires and poetry, as well as his political journalism, essays, manuscripts, and personal correspondence. Throughout the book, biographically contextualized descriptions of Swift’s most famous works help readers better understand both the writing and the writer. Provides critical profiles of Gulliver’s Travels, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, Drapier’s Letters, and Swift’s other famous works Offers insights into Swift’s relationships with Esther Johnson, “Stella,” and Esther Vanhomrigh, “Vanessa” Highlights Swift’s poetry and how verse writing was a vital part of his creative being Summarizes and contextualizes lesser-known works such as The Conduct of the Allies Addresses the historic critical bias against comedy or satire as inferior forms of art, both in Swift’s lifetime and the present The Life of Jonathan Swift is an essential resource for general readers of literature and literary biography, university instructors and researchers, and undergraduate students taking courses in English literature.
Download or read book Jonathan Swift s Gulliver s Travels written by Harold Bloom and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents early twenty-first century critical essays on Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.
Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by William D. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1980-04-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings of Jonathan Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Tale of a Tub written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1771 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: