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.

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• Autori: Ian Higgins
• Con la collaborazione di: Howard Erskine-Hill (Editore), John J. Richetti (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521025683
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02568-3
• Pagine: 248
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese