Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture Myth, Media and the Man
Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture Myth, Media and the Man

Author: A. Kelly

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 113708264X

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Ann Kelly's provocative book breaks the mold of Swift studies. Twentieth century Swift scholars have tended to assess Jonathan Swift as a pillar of the eighteenth-century 'republic of letter', a conservative, even reactionary voice upholding classical values against the welling tide of popularization in literature. Kelly looks at Swift instead as a practical exponent of the popular and impressario of the literary image. She argues that Swift turned his back on the elite to write for a popular audience, and that he annexed scandals to his fictionalized print alter ego, creating a continual demand for works by or about this self-mythologized figure. A fascinating look at print culture, the commodification of the author, and the history of popular culture, this book should provoke lots of discussion.

Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture Myth, Media and the Man
Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture Myth, Media and the Man

Author: A. Kelly

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2002-05-13

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780312239596

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Ann Kelly's provocative book breaks the mold of Swift studies. Twentieth century Swift scholars have tended to assess Jonathan Swift as a pillar of the eighteenth-century 'republic of letter', a conservative, even reactionary voice upholding classical values against the welling tide of popularization in literature. Kelly looks at Swift instead as a practical exponent of the popular and impressario of the literary image. She argues that Swift turned his back on the elite to write for a popular audience, and that he annexed scandals to his fictionalized print alter ego, creating a continual demand for works by or about this self-mythologized figure. A fascinating look at print culture, the commodification of the author, and the history of popular culture, this book should provoke lots of discussion.

A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift
A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift

Author: David Oakleaf

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1317315529

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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.

The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift

Author: Christopher Fox

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-09-11

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 1139826557

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The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this 2003 volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and scholars. The thirteen essays explore crucial dimensions of Swift's life and works. As well as ensuring a broad coverage of Swift's writing - including early and later works as well as the better known and the lesser known - the Companion also offers a way into current critical and theoretical issues surrounding the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift's vexed relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland; and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicised age. The Companion offers a lucid introduction to these and other issues, and raises questions about Swift and his world. The volume features a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading.

Jonathan Swift in Print and Manuscript
Jonathan Swift in Print and Manuscript

Author: Stephen Karian

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-04-29

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0521198046

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An important study of how Swift's texts were circulated, and the different meanings of print and manuscript in his career.

Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Author: Paddy Bullard

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1107244641

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Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than those of any other single author, illustrate the range of developments that transformed print culture during the early Enlightenment. Swift was a prolific author and a frequent visitor at the printing house, and he wrote as critic and satirist about the nature of text. The shifting moods of irony, complicity and indignation that characterise his dealings with the book trade add a layer of complexity to the bibliographic record of his published works. The essays collected here offer the first comprehensive, integrated survey of that record. They shed new light on the politics of the eighteenth-century book trade, on Swift's innovations as a maker of books, on the habits and opinions revealed by his commentary on printed texts and on the re-shaping of the Swiftian book after his death.

Critical Companion to Jonathan Swift
Critical Companion to Jonathan Swift

Author: Paul J. DeGategno

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1438108516

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Provides a comprehensive alphabetical reference to the life and work of Jonathan Swift.

The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry
The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry

Author: Virginia Brackett

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1438108354

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Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference with approximately 400 entries providing facts about British poets and their poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Jonathan Swift in Context
Jonathan Swift in Context

Author: Joseph Hone

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-05-09

Total Pages: 718

ISBN-13: 1108924557

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Jonathan Swift remains the most important and influential satirist in the English language. The author of Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub, in addition to vast numbers of political pamphlets, satirical verses, sermons, and other kinds of text, Swift is one of the most versatile writers in the literary canon. His writings were always closely intertwined with the English and Irish worlds in which he lived. The forty-four essays collected in Jonathan Swift in Context advance the latest research on Swift in a way that will engage undergraduate students while also remaining useful for scholars. Reflecting the best of current and ongoing scholarship, the contextual approach advanced by this volume will help to make Swift's works even more powerful and resonant to modern audiences.