Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon P.
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift
Author: Christopher Fox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521002837
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and scholars. The thirteen essays explore crucial dimensions of Swift s life and works. As well as ensuring a broad coverage of Swift s writing - including early and later works as well as the better known and the lesser known - the Companion also offers a way into current critical and theoretical issues surrounding the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift s vexed relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland; and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicised age. The Companion offers a lucid introduction to these and other issues, and raises new questions about Swift and his world. The volume features a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521002837
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and scholars. The thirteen essays explore crucial dimensions of Swift s life and works. As well as ensuring a broad coverage of Swift s writing - including early and later works as well as the better known and the lesser known - the Companion also offers a way into current critical and theoretical issues surrounding the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift s vexed relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland; and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicised age. The Companion offers a lucid introduction to these and other issues, and raises new questions about Swift and his world. The volume features a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading.
The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift
Author: David Oakleaf
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317315510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Most famous as the author of "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the most important propagandists and satirists of his day. This study seeks to contextualize Swift within the political arena of his day.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317315510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Most famous as the author of "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the most important propagandists and satirists of his day. This study seeks to contextualize Swift within the political arena of his day.
The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness
Author: Kenneth Craven
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004246797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Casting aside critical shibboleths in place for centuries, Kenneth Craven's Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness proposes a new view of intellectual history. This revisionary study documents Swift's intimate knowledge of seventeenth-century science from Bacon and the Invisible College at Oxford to the Newtonian synthesis within the context of Paracelsian medicine and the chemical-mechanical split. Craven shows that Swift joins the philosophies of a neoplatonic divine order, Epicurean atomism, the Reformation, and scientific millenarianism as permeating his time with millennial myths sure eventually to detonate the sense of composure of individuals and societies. In contradistinction, Swift elucidates links between the humors traditions in medicine and literature, saturnine melancholy and the dreaming god Kronos. He proposes the somber realism of the Kronos myth as providing awareness of the self-imposed restraints on ego needed to preclude the proliferation of modern information systems into trivialization of the human enterprise to meaninglessness. This fresh and exhaustive examination of the Anglo-Irish writer's first masterpiece, A Tale of a Tub (1704) unlocks barriers to seeing the nature of Swift's complex integrity, passion, and literary achievements throughout a career studded with disappointments. Specifically, this study authoritatively reveals the identity of unnamed victims of Swift's satire as the deist John Toland and his republican hero, John Milton, for their advocacy of the Puritan Revolution and regicide; Toland's mentor John Locke and another Lockean disciple, Lord Shaftesbury, who confused happiness and self-interest with delusion and the public weal; and his tormentors in the Church of Ireland, Narcissus Marsh and Peter Browne.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004246797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Casting aside critical shibboleths in place for centuries, Kenneth Craven's Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness proposes a new view of intellectual history. This revisionary study documents Swift's intimate knowledge of seventeenth-century science from Bacon and the Invisible College at Oxford to the Newtonian synthesis within the context of Paracelsian medicine and the chemical-mechanical split. Craven shows that Swift joins the philosophies of a neoplatonic divine order, Epicurean atomism, the Reformation, and scientific millenarianism as permeating his time with millennial myths sure eventually to detonate the sense of composure of individuals and societies. In contradistinction, Swift elucidates links between the humors traditions in medicine and literature, saturnine melancholy and the dreaming god Kronos. He proposes the somber realism of the Kronos myth as providing awareness of the self-imposed restraints on ego needed to preclude the proliferation of modern information systems into trivialization of the human enterprise to meaninglessness. This fresh and exhaustive examination of the Anglo-Irish writer's first masterpiece, A Tale of a Tub (1704) unlocks barriers to seeing the nature of Swift's complex integrity, passion, and literary achievements throughout a career studded with disappointments. Specifically, this study authoritatively reveals the identity of unnamed victims of Swift's satire as the deist John Toland and his republican hero, John Milton, for their advocacy of the Puritan Revolution and regicide; Toland's mentor John Locke and another Lockean disciple, Lord Shaftesbury, who confused happiness and self-interest with delusion and the public weal; and his tormentors in the Church of Ireland, Narcissus Marsh and Peter Browne.
The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin: Journal to Stella (Letter XXXVIII-LXV).
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Loyalty and Identity
Author: P. Monod
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230248578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, England and Europe. They examine Jacobitism as an integral aspect of culture and society in the British Isles and beyond during the century after 1688.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230248578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, England and Europe. They examine Jacobitism as an integral aspect of culture and society in the British Isles and beyond during the century after 1688.
Archaeologia Americana
Author: American Antiquarian Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
The History of Printing in America
Author: Isaiah Thomas
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368836390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368836390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
THE WORKS OF THE Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description