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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms - such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, the Drapier - or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian". Klappentext This latest volume of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift is the first fully annotated edition of Swift's Irish prose writings from 1726 to 1737. Works in this volume include the famous A Modest Proposal, the acerbic A Short View of the State of Ireland, Swift's contributions to The Intelligencer, and other prose pieces of satire, polemic and intervention into contemporary Irish politics. Most of these works have never previously been published with full scholarly annotation, or with a complete and textually authoritative apparatus. This volume offers a comprehensive introduction, setting Swift's writings of the period into their full historical, political and economic context. In addition to a critical introduction and appendices, there is also an up-to-date bibliography. The volume enables Swift's role as a political and social commentator in the years after the publication of Gulliver's Travels to be understood with new clarity. Zusammenfassung This latest volume of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift is the first fully annotated! contextualised! and textually authoritative edition of Swift's Irish prose writings from 1726 to 1738! including A Modest Proposal! and will be the standard edition of these writings for scholars! researchers! and students. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Irish political writings after 1725; Associated materials: 1. Hints for Intelligencer Papers, and Maxims Examined; 2. Letter to the Printer of Thoughts on the Tillage of Ireland; Appendices: A. Memorial of the Poor Inhabitants of Ireland; B. The Craftsman's First Letter of Advice, 7 November 1730; C. The Case of the Woollen Manufacturers; D. To The Author of those Intelligencers Printed at Dublin; E. Dublin Weekly Journal, Saturday, June 7th, 1729; Textual introduction; Textual accounts of individual works; Bibliography; Index....
