The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations; Chronology; List of abbreviations; Introduction Christopher Fox; 1. Swift's life Joseph McMinn; 2. Politics and history David Oakleaf; 3. Swift the Irishman Carole Fabricant; 4. Swift's reading Brean Hammond; 5. Swift and women Margaret Anne Doody; 6. Swift's satire and parody Michael F. Suarez, S.J.; 7. Money and economics Patrick Kelly; 8. Language and style Ian Higgins; 9. Swift and religion Marcus Walsh; 10. Swift the poet Pat Rogers; 11. A Tale of Tub and early prose Judith C. Mueller; 12. Gulliver's Travels and the later writings J. Paul Hunter; 13. Classic Swift Seamus Deane; Further reading.

Portrait

Christopher Fox is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is the author of Locke and the Scriblerians: Identity and Consciousness in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain.

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'... is important not just for the information it gathers but for the balance it offers between the purely, or largely, literary readings and those that offer a broader perspective ...' Eighteenth-Century Ireland