Download or read book Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth Century Book written by Paddy Bullard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than those of any other single author, illustrate the range of developments that transformed print culture during the early Enlightenment. Swift was a prolific author and a frequent visitor at the printing house, and he wrote as critic and satirist about the nature of text. The shifting moods of irony, complicity and indignation that characterise his dealings with the book trade add a layer of complexity to the bibliographic record of his published works. The essays collected here offer the first comprehensive, integrated survey of that record. They shed new light on the politics of the eighteenth-century book trade, on Swift's innovations as a maker of books, on the habits and opinions revealed by his commentary on printed texts and on the re-shaping of the Swiftian book after his death.
Download or read book The Works of the Rev Jonathan Swift D D Dean of St Patrick s Dublin written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of the Rev Jonathan Swift D D written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift D D written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index of English Literary Manuscripts written by Margaret M. Smith and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-05-09 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Least of These written by Mark B. Roe and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lying at the very edge of the eighteenth-century city, behind high walls and forbidding gates, the Dublin Foundling Hospital was long viewed with horror and suspicion. Yet, following its closure, it seemed to have slipped from the city's memory. The Least of These uncovers the story of the Hospital, from its origins as a workhouse in 1703 during the Penal Laws to its demise in 1830. Its mission: to take in the children of poor Catholics and raise them as Protestants, loyal to king and empire. This was an institution where every infant was tattooed with an identification number, where thousands of children were fed opium and where, as with many foundling hospitals, the death toll was vast. But why did it endure for so long? And why did quite so many die? Based on original research, Mark B. Roe brings together eyewitness accounts, letters from desperate parents and individual life stories to finally bring the tragic story of Dublin's Foundling Hospital to light.
Download or read book The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comets Popular Culture and the Birth of Modern Cosmology written by Sara Schechner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of English Literature From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift Essays on the portraits of Swift by Sir Frederick Falkiner and on Swift and Stella by the Very Rev the Dean of St Patrick s Bibliography of Swift s works by W Spencer Jackson and a general index comp by Constance Jacob written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by Robert Mahony and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces Swift's fluctuating reception in Ireland through the centuries, finding in Swift's ambivalence about his homeland - which he could not love even as he defended its cause - echoes and anticipations of the ambiguities that have marked the development of Irish identity at large. Mahony looks at Swift's posthumous reputation in literary culture and examines his unusual place in Irish political rhetoric. He shows that Swift's patriotic reputation suffered in the later eighteenth century through its seeming irrelevance to shifting political circumstances.
Download or read book William P Farrand s Catalogue of English Irish and American Editions of Law Books written by William Powell Farrand and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosophical Biographer written by Martin Maner and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophical Biographer shows how a shift in philosophical outlook in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-from an understanding of human knowledge rooted in deductive certainties to one resting on inductive probability-influenced the development of biographical narrative in general and in particular the way Johnson dealt with biographical evidence in his Lives of the Poets. Examining the psychological and philosophical doubt that lay at the heart of Johnson's character and intellect, Martin Maner reveals in the biographical studies of Savage, Swift, Milton, and Pope an ingrained pattern of dialectical argument and a skeptical attitude toward evidence--a method that involves the reader in judgments about the poets as it conveys Johnson's own understanding of truth. In the Life of Savage, Johnson moves from thesis to antithesis, generating out of opposing emotional responses--irony and sympathy, ridicule and pathos-an understanding of the man. Dialectically undercutting the conclusions of previous biographers of Swift and Milton, Johnson fashions a new, somewhat acidic estimation of Swift and a portrait of Milton that engages contemporary questions of the probable and the marvelous. The Life of Pope, Johnson's greatest dialectical achievement, alternates between blame and praise, public and private realms, weaving tone, context, and analogy into great, contrasting patterns of inquiry and judgment. Establishing the centrality of a dialectical method in the Lives of the Poets, Martin Maner links the rise of biography as well as Johnson's interest in the form to the shift in epistemology brought about by empiricism. In the new patterns of thought of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, biography--the estimation of a life through sifting of historical events and evidence--was the most philosophical of endeavors, and Johnson its greatest practitioner.
Download or read book The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature written by Frederick Wilse Bateson and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of the Rev Jonathan Swift D D with Notes Historical and Critical written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature Volume 2 1660 1800 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971-07-02 with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Download or read book The Works of the Rev Jonathan Swift D D The Examiner Some advice to the members of the October Club The conduct of the allies written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
