The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift: A Norton Critical

The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

This Norton Critical Edition is the fullest single-volume collection of Jonathan Swift's writings, encompassing not only the major prose satiresâ€•A Tale of the Tub, Gulliverâ€™s Travels, and A Modest Proposalâ€•but also a large number of other works, including his most important poems and political writings. The texts are accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations by Ian Higgins, thirty illustrations, and a full introduction by Claude Rawson. This is an indispensable edition for scholar and student alike.
â€œContextsâ€ features a generous selection of contemporary materials, among them Swift's letters, autobiographical documents, and personal writings.

â€œCriticismâ€ provides readers with a wide chronological and thematic range of scholarly interpretations, divided into two sections. The first, â€œ1745â€“1940,â€ includes assessments by Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Makepeace Thackeray, D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, F. R. Leavis, and AndrÃ© Breton, among others. The second, â€œAfter 1940,â€ is by subject and collects critical discussions of A Tale of the Tub, the poems, the English and Irish politics, and Gulliverâ€™s Travels, by Hugh Kenner, Marcus Walsh, Irvin Ehrenpreis, Penelope Wilson, Derek Mahon, S. J. Connolly, George Orwell, R. S. Crane, Jenny Mezciems, Ian Higgins, and Claude Rawson.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. 1 map, illustrations
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780393930658
Model 9780393930658
ReleaseDate 2009-09-09
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EANs 9780393930658

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780393930658
Model	9780393930658
ReleaseDate	2009-09-09
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393930658

The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

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