Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen
Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Swift and History
Author: Ashley MarshallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110710176X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This book explores the importance of history to Jonathan Swift through close reading of his historical, polemical and satirical writings.
The Genres of Gulliver's Travels
Author: Frederik N. SmithPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874133592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A reevaluation of Swift's masterpiece and a test of the usefulness of examining a text through the perspective of genre. Gulliver is explored from the standpoint of picaresque, history, novel, children's literature, illustrated book, scientific prose, science fiction, philosophical treatise, and satire.
History of Queen Anne
Author: Jonathan SwiftQueen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life
Author: Lucy WorsleyPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250201438
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era A passionate princess, an astute and clever queen, and a cunning widow, Victoria played many roles throughout her life. In Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life, Lucy Worsley introduces her as a woman leading a truly extraordinary life in a unique time period. Queen Victoria simultaneously managed to define a socially conservative vision of Victorian womanhood, while also defying its conventions. Beneath her exterior image of traditional daughter, wife, and widow, she was a strong-willed and masterful politician. Drawing from the vast collection of Victoria’s correspondence and the rich documentation of her life, Worsley recreates twenty-four of the most important days in Victoria's life. Each day gives a glimpse into the identity of this powerful, difficult queen and the contradictions that defined her. Queen Victoria is an intimate introduction to one of Britain’s most iconic rulers as a wife and widow, mother and matriarch, and above all, a woman of her time.
The Works ...
Author: Jonathan SwiftWorks
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Historical and political tracts-English
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Snare in the Constitution
Author: Zouheir JamoussiPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144381542X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This comparative study of Defoe’s and Swift’s treatments of liberty embraces what seemed the most significant parts of their vast, multifaceted oeuvres, both non-fictional and fictional. Defoe’s and Swift’s positions with regard to the English constitution and liberties are assessed here through a close examination of their views on contemporary religious and political issues. Moreover, their involvement in the debates on the liberties and constitutions of Scotland and Ireland, respectively, could not be left out of this comparative approach to their treatments of liberty in the broader sense. Also of primary concern is the liberty of expression and of the press underlined (though ambiguously) by both authors as an essential precondition for any debate, political or otherwise. The antithetic relationship between “snare” and “liberty” is examined in the context of the analogy between the political constitution (the body politic) and the human constitution (the natural body) commonly drawn in early 18th century political writings, including Defoe’s and Swift’s. This analogy provides appropriate means of identifying important links within, as well as between, the two authors’ works, since both focused on “snares” in the political and human constitutions. The part of the study devoted to the “snare” in human nature mainly considers the fictional works. Much attention has been given in this regard to the contrasting ways in which both authors have dealt with those “snares” and the interaction between the human and the political constitutions.
Author: Jonathan Swift