Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift: The drapier's letters and other works, 1724-1725
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: The Drapier's letters and other works, 1724-1725
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Essays on the portraits of Swift, by Sir Frederick Falkiner, and on Swift and Stella, by the Very Rev. the Dean of St. Patrick's. Bibliography of Swift's works, by W. Spencer Jackson, and a general index, comp. by Constance Jacob
Author: Jonathan SwiftThe Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Essays on the portraits of Swift, by Sir Frederick Falkiner, and on Swift and Stella, by the Very Rev. J.H. Bernard, the Dean of St. Patrick's. Bibliography of Swift's works, by W. Spencer Jackson, and a general index, comp. by Constance Jacob
Author: Jonathan SwiftA Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Jonathan Swift, D.D.
Author: Dr. H. TeerinkPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401763496
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: The drapier's letters
Author: Jonathan SwiftMoney, Power, and Print
Author: Charles Ivar McGrathPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874130270
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"This collection gathers the expertise of scholars in several disciplines to examine the manner in which financial and economic arguments were expressed in pamphlets, broadsides, and longer works of literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to assess to what extent the political realities of the day were informed by these debates or, alternatively, shaped by that rhetoric. The contributors to the volume draw upon an extensive variety of contemporary sources and modern analyses of the formative years of the financial revolution to reexamine many of the existing conventional ideas about the relationship between money, power, and print, and to suggest that the subject is far more complex and interrelated than most studies up to now have indicated. Particular attention is paid to the fact that the financial revolution did not occur in London in isolation from the various regions of the British Isles." "The essays address the question of how money, power, and print influenced the contemporary emergence of a radically different public finance structure in the British empire and how retrospective understanding of the results have influenced historical readings of the texts and the events. A number of contributions offer detailed analyses of particular moments or structures in the reshaping of the public financial sphere, such as the parliamentary and pamphlet debate over the establishment of the Bank of England and proposals for a land bank as an alternative. Other essays focus on broader themes illustrative of larger trends during the period, such as the Scottish support for an expedition to Madagascar to take advantage of presumed pirate treasure on the island."--BOOK JACKET.
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740
Author: Michael McKeonPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 0801877997
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
“This may well be the most important study of the development of prose fiction in England since Ian Watt’s classic Rise of the Novel, on which it builds.” —Library Journal The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, combines historical analysis and readings of extraordinarily diverse texts to reconceive the foundations of the dominant genre of the modern era. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of its initial publication, The Origins of the English Novel stands as essential reading. The anniversary edition features a new introduction in which the author reflects on the considerable response and commentary the book has attracted since its publication by describing dialectical method and by applying it to early modern notions of gender. Challenging prevailing theories that tie the origins of the novel to the ascendancy of “realism” and the “middle class,” McKeon argues that this new genre arose in response to the profound instability of literary and social categories. Between 1600 and 1740, momentous changes took place in European attitudes toward truth in narrative and toward virtue in the individual and the social order. The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age. “This book is a formidable attempt to articulate issues of almost imponderable centrality for modern life and literature. McKeon proposes with quite breathtaking ambition and considerable intellectual flourish to redefine the novel’s key role in those immense cultural transformations that produce the modern world.” —Studies in the Novel “A magisterial work of history and analysis.” —Arts and Letters “A powerful and solid work that will dominate discussion of its subject for a long time to come.” —The New York Review of Books
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Index, the prose works of Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan SwiftA Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800
Author: Mary PollardPublisher: OUP/The Bibliographical Society of London
ISBN: 9780948170119
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
This dictionary attempts in nearly 2,200 entries to cover all workers in the various branches of the Dublin book trade until the Act of Union in 1800. All grades of workers from apprentice to master, and papermakers, engravers, hawkers and other peripheral traders are considered, as well as the all-important printers and booksellers. Entries naturally vary from one or two lines to one or two pages in length. The aim is to illustrate the working life of each subject by reference to contemporary sources such as records of the stationer's Guild, state papers, imprints, newspaper advertisements, customers' accounts, etc, with documentation for each statement made. Entries will thus give practical clues to dating undated books, as well as provide a basis for further research into individual traders' work and the Dublin trade as a whole. Some account of the history and organization of the Dublin Guild of St Luke (cutlers, painter-stainers, and stationers) appears as introduction.