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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ian Higgins
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.05.1994
• EAN: 9780521418140
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41814-0
• Pagine: 248
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese