Swift''s Politics - A Study in Disaffection

Klappentext A contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing concentrating on A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels. Zusammenfassung Ian Higgins' contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing concentrates on the partisan meanings of the great satires A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels! and represents Swift (as he was read by his contemporaries) as a disaffected High Church Anglican extremist with Jacobite inclinations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Swift's political character; 2. Revolution, reaction and literary representation: Swift's Jacobite Tory contexts; 3. The politics of A Tale of a Tub; 4. The politics of Gulliver's Travels; Bibliography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ian Higgins
• Mitarbeit: Howard Erskine-Hill (Herausgeber), John J. Richetti (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521025683
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02568-3
• Seiten: 248
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft