Author: Thomas SHERIDAN (M.A., Teacher of Elocution.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, etc
Author: Thomas SHERIDAN (M.A., Teacher of Elocution.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
The Life of Jonathan Swift
Author: Thomas LockwoodPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118957180
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Presents a fresh account of the life history and creative imagination of Jonathan Swift Classic satires such as Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub express radical positions, yet were written by the most conservative of men. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin and spent most of his life in Ireland, never traveling outside the British Isles. An Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman, he was a major political and religious figure whose career was primarily clerical, not literary. Although much is known about Swift, in many ways he remains an enigma. He was admired as an Irish patriot yet was contemptuous of the Irish. He was both secretive and self-dramatizing. His talent for friendship was matched by his skill for making enemies. He hated the English but yearned to live in England. The Life of Jonathan Swift explores the writing life and personal history of the foremost satirist in the English language. Accessible and engaging, this critical biography brings Swift’s writing and creative sensibility into the narrative of his life. Author Thomas Lockwood provides the historical and modern critical context of Swift’s prose satires and poetry, as well as his political journalism, essays, manuscripts, and personal correspondence. Throughout the book, biographically contextualized descriptions of Swift’s most famous works help readers better understand both the writing and the writer. Provides critical profiles of Gulliver’s Travels, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, Drapier’s Letters, and Swift’s other famous works Offers insights into Swift’s relationships with Esther Johnson, “Stella,” and Esther Vanhomrigh, “Vanessa” Highlights Swift’s poetry and how verse writing was a vital part of his creative being Summarizes and contextualizes lesser-known works such as The Conduct of the Allies Addresses the historic critical bias against comedy or satire as inferior forms of art, both in Swift’s lifetime and the present The Life of Jonathan Swift is an essential resource for general readers of literature and literary biography, university instructors and researchers, and undergraduate students taking courses in English literature.
A Catalogue of Books, Etc
Author: Macclesfield Subscription Library (MACCLESFIELD)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Auction Catalogues
Author: Scott and O'ShaughnessyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800
Author: George WatsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521079341
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1698
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift ... in a Series of Letters from John Earl of Orrery, to his Son, etc
Author: John BOYLE (Earl of Cork and Orrery.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library, Cambridge
Author: Cambridge University Library. Bradshaw Irish CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description