Swift's Politics: A Study in Disaffection - Couverture rigide

Higgins, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521418143 ISBN 13 : 9780521418140

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

A contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing concentrating on A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Modern scholarship has represented Jonathan Swift as both an Old Whig and a non-Jacobite Tory. Ian Higgins' contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing and recorded opinion considers the interpretative problems they present. It explores the consonance of Swift's political writing with militant Jacobite Tory writing on affairs of Church and State, and demonstrates Swift's dissimilarity from the Old Whig writers with whom modern criticism has misleadingly identified him. Swift's writings of the 1690s, during the last four years of Queen Anne's reign, and after the Hanoverian succession are shown to contain Jacobitical political implications when examined in their context in the 'paper wars' of the period. Higgins concentrates on the partisan meanings of the great satires A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels, and represents Swift (as he was read by his contemporaries) as a disaffected High Church Anglican extremist with Jacobite inclinations.

Revue de presse

'An exceptionally learned and persuasive study.' Brean S. Hammond, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521418143
• ISBN 13: 9780521418140
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie