A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift
Seiten
2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-66340-4 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-66340-4 (ISBN)
Most famous as the author of "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the most important propagandists and satirists of his day. This study seeks to contextualize Swift within the political arena of his day.
David Oakleaf
Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: ‘“The Church had never such a Writer”’; Chapter 1 Swift, War and Ireland: ‘An Heap of Conspiracies, Rebellions, Murders, Massacres, Revolutions, Banishments’; Chapter 2 Courting the Favour of the Great:; A Discourse; and; A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 3 ‘An Entire Friend to the Established Church’: Churchman among the Statesmen and Wits; Chapter 4 The Echo of the Coffee House and the Voice of the Kingdom: Propagandist for a Peace; Chapter 5 ‘Do I become a; Slave; in Six Hours, by Crossing the Channel?’: The Dean, the Drapier and Irish Politics; Conclusion: ‘Upon this Great Foundation of Misanthropy’;
Erscheinungsdatum | 23.01.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-66340-9 / 1138663409 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-66340-4 / 9781138663404 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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