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
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 05.05.1994
• EAN: 9780521418140
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41814-0
• Seiten: 248
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft