The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift

This 2003 Companion explores crucial dimensions of Swift's life and works.

Christopher Fox (Edited by)

9780521002837, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 September 2003

302 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.486 kg

'… 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

The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this 2003 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 questions about Swift and his world. The volume features a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]