Jonathan Swift / edited and introduced by Nigel Wood
1999, First Edition. London ; New York : Longman. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Item #421038
ISBN: 0582225728
Physical description; xii, 299 pages : facsimile ; 22 cm. Series; Longman critical readers. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and index. Contents; pt. 1. Reading and Identity. 1. Swift's Tory Anarchy / Edward Said. 2. 'Splendide Mendax': Authors, Characters, and Readers in Gulliver's Travels / Richard H. Rodino. 3. Extract from Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word / Deborah Baker Wyrick -- pt. 2. Text and Context. 4. Scriblerian Self-Fashioning / Brean S. Hammond. 5. Text, 'Text', and Swift's A Tale of a Tub / Marcus Walsh. 6. The Authority of Satire / Everett Zimmerman. 7. Extract from Swift's Landscape / Carole Fabricant. 8. The Grotesque Satiric Body / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- pt. 3. The Female Monster. 9. Flesh and Blood: Swift's Sexual Strategies / Carol Houlihan Flynn. 10. Feminism and the Augustans: Some Readings and Problems / Penelope Wilson. Subjects; Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 Criticism and interpretation. Satire, English Ireland History and criticism. Irish authors History and criticism.
Price: €65.00