Jonathan Swift
The Critical Heritage
1st Edition
Published on 2. October 2012
360 pages
978-1-134-77178-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Reflowable
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0,99 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-77178-3 (9781134771783)
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Content
Introduction; Note on the Text; Chapter 1 Dr. William King on A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 2 Francis Atterbury on A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 3 William Wotton on A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 4 Richard Steele on A Project for the Advancement of Religion; Chapter 5 John Dennis on the Examiner; Chapter 6 The aim of A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 7 Sir Richard Blackmore on A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 8 A translator's opinions of A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 9 A Swiss view of A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books; Chapter 10 The reception of Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 11 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 12 An anonymous opinion of Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 13 William Warburton on Swift and human nature; Chapter 14 Voltaire on Swift; Chapter 15 Abbe Desfontaines and Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 16 Jonathan Smedley on Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 17 Swift as political dictator; Chapter 18 Anonymous criticisms of Houyhnhnmland; Chapter 19 George Faulkner on Swift's poetry; Chapter 20 The Duchess of Marlborough on Swift; Chapter 21 Francois Cartaud de la Villate on A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 22 Samuel Richardson on Swift; Chapter 23 Paradis de Moncrif on Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 24 Henry Fielding on Swift; Chapter 25 David Hume on Swift; Chapter 26 Lord Orrery on Swift; Chapter 27 Patrick Delany on Swift; Chapter 28 Deane Swift on Gulliver's Travels and on Swift as a poet; Chapter 29 John Hawkesworth on Swift; Chapter 30 W. H. Dilworth on Swift; Chapter 31 Edward Young on Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 32 George Lord Lyttelton on Swift; Chapter 33 A French reissue of Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 34 Oliver Goldsmith on Swift; Chapter 35 Ralph Griffiths on Swift's 'Cause'; Chapter 36 Horace Walpole and his circle on Swift; Chapter 37 Lord Monboddo on Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 38 James Beattie on Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub, and The Day of Judgment; Chapter 39 A French comment on A Modest Proposal; Chapter 40 Dr. Johnson on Swift; Chapter 41 Samuel Badcock on Swift's 'true wit'; Chapter 42 James Harris on Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 43 Joseph Warton on Swift's descriptions; Chapter 44 Swift's characteristics as a writer; Chapter 45 Hugh Blair on Swift's style; Chapter 46 Thomas Sheridan on Swift; Chapter 47 Incidental comments on Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 48 George-Monck Berkeley on Swift; Chapter 49 Thomas Ogle on Swift and misanthropy; Chapter 50 Swift as satirist and poet; Chapter 51 William Godwin on Swift's style; Chapter 52 John Nichols on Swift; Chapter 53 Alexander Chalmers on Swift's style and character; Chapter 54 Swiftiana; Chapter 55 John Aikin on Swift's poetry; Chapter 56 56. Richard Payne Knight on the plausibility of Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 57 57. Nathan Drake on Swift; Chapter 58 John Dunlop on the background of Gulliver's Travels; Chapter 59 Sir Walter Scott on Swift; Chapter 60 Francis Jeffrey on Swift; Chapter 61 William Hazlitt on Swift; Chapter 62 Coleridge on Swift; Chapter 63 William Monck Mason on Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal;
