The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe

Jonathan Swift has had a profound impact on almost all the national literatures of Continental Europe. The celebrated author of acknowledged masterpieces like A Tale of a Tub (1704), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729), the Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, was courted by innumerable translators, adaptors, and retellers, admired and challenged by shoals of critics, and creatively imitated by both novelists and playwrights, not only in Central Europe (Germany and Switzerland) but also in its northern (Denmark and Sweden) and southern (Italy, Spain, and Portugal) outposts, as well as its eastern (Poland and Russia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria) and Western parts - from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present day.

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• Authors: Hermann J Real, Hermann J. (EDT) Real, Hermann Josef Real
• Assisted by: Hermann J. Real (Editor), Hermann Josef Real (Editor), Elinor Shaffer (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2005
• EAN: 9780826468475
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-6847-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Reception of British Authors i; The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe; Reception of British Authors i
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form