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Jonathan Swift : the essential writings : authoritative texts, contexts, criticism
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Contexts as mentioned in this paper provides readers with a wide chronological and thematic range of scholarly interpretations, divided into two sections: the first, "1745-1940," includes assessments by Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Makepeace Thackeray, D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, F. R. Leavis, and Andre Breton, among others.Abstract:
"Contexts" features a generous selection of contemporary materials, among them Swift's letters, autobiographical documents, and personal writings. "Criticism" provides readers with a wide chronological and thematic range of scholarly interpretations, divided into two sections. The first, "1745-1940," includes assessments by Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Makepeace Thackeray, D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, F. R. Leavis, and Andre Breton, among others. The second, "After 1940," is by subject and collects critical discussions of A Tale of the Tub, the poems, the English and Irish politics, and Gulliver'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.read more
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Building the Bildungsroman: How Jonathan Swift’s Early Satire Helped James Joyce Find His Voice
TL;DR: The authors investigates the stylistic affinities between Jonathan Swift and James Joyce, in particular those resemblances which are present in their earlier works, such as A Tale of a Tub, The Battel of the Books, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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Mary Wollstonecraft, Jonathan Swift, and the Passion in Reading
TL;DR: Palumbo et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the role of the figure of woman in the development of women's intellectual capaci ties in the work of Jonathan Swift and found that Wollstonecraft alluded explicitly to three of his texts: part 4 of Gulliver's Travels (1726), “The Furniture of a Woman's Mind” (1727), and “A Letter to a Young Lady, on Her Marriage”(1723).
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Satire, Sincerity, and Swift’s “Exploded” Gospel:
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“Something for an Executive:” Satire in Terry Gilliam's Brazil
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