Swift (Routledge Revivals)
Swift (Routledge Revivals)

Author: W. A. Speck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-03

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1317584619

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First published in 1969, this title examines the works of Jonathan Swift from both a literary and an historical perspective. W. A. Speck first presents Swift in his historical context, analysing in particular the interplay between his religious and political views. Light is thrown on the early pamphlets as well as on A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver’s Travels, alongside a fascinating chapter by Philip Roberts considering Swift’s poetry. This illuminating title will be of value to any literature students with an interest in the writings of Swift and the historical context in which he worked.

Jonathan Swift (Routledge Revivals)
Jonathan Swift (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Alan Downie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1317605799

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First published in 1984, this biography gives an account of Jonathan Swift’s political ideas and provides a critical commentary on his major works. With its emphasis on Swift as a political writer, the title offers a revision of the prevailing view of Swift’s politics and its application in the study of his works. Alan Downie argues that in terms of the party politics of the day Swift is neither a Whig nor Tory. Swift thought of himself as an ‘Old Whig’, and said he was ‘of the old Whig principles, without the modern articles and refinements’. Downie shows how Swift’s writings consistently make political points about society’s deviation from an ideal. As Swift’s views on morality, religion and politics are so closely linked, an understanding of his political ideas is vital; this reissue provides a detailed analysis of this aspect of Swift’s writings and views, and as such will be of great interest to any students researching his satire.

Routledge Revivals: Gulliver and the Gentle Reader (1991)
Routledge Revivals: Gulliver and the Gentle Reader (1991)

Author: C J Rawson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 135136460X

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Originally published in 1991, Gulliver and the Gentle Reader critically examines the writing of Jonathan Swift. The book is predominately concerned with what Rawson coins ‘the "unofficial" energies’ which work below the surface of Swift’s conscious themes. Alongside this discussion, Rawson provides detailed studies on historical, cultural and psychological relationships, and the connections that exist between these areas and more extreme writers of the later period such as Breton, Mailer, and Yeats, as well as the connections with the writers such as his contemporary Pope, and those that followed such as Johnson, and Sterne. This book will be of interest to students of literature, as well as those researching in the area of literature.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century (Routledge Revivals)
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Henry A. Beers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 131768477X

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First published in 1926, this title presents the great artistic and literary innovations of the Romantic movement according to an often overlooked and unacknowledged definition of ‘Romanticism’, which is of particular relevance in the consideration of the English Romantic spirit: pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages.

Swiftian Inspirations
Swiftian Inspirations

Author: Jonathan McCreedy

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-01-24

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1527546144

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This book addresses key problems regarding Swiftian thought and satire, analyzing the inspirational cultural legacy which generations of writers, thinkers, and satirists have recurrently relied upon since the Enlightenment. Section One deals with the eighteenth century and the topics of truth, falsehood and madness. Section Two focuses on two film adaptations of Gulliver’s Travels as well as on allusions to Swiftian satire during the US Enlightenment and in post-racial America. Section Three looks at the politics of language, politeness, and satire within translation, and Section Four dwells upon the process of reading Swift in the age of post-truth and Brexit. It will be of interest to students and scholars of eighteenth-century literature and culture, modern-day politics as well as to those interested in satire, science fiction, and film adaptations of literary works.

Visualising Protestant Monarchy
Visualising Protestant Monarchy

Author: Julie Farguson

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1783275448

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The first comprehensive, comparative study of the visual culture of monarchy in the reigns of William and Mary and Queen Anne

Order from Confusion Sprung
Order from Confusion Sprung

Author: Claude Rawson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-03

Total Pages: 622

ISBN-13: 0429876459

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Originally published in 1985, Order From Confusion Sprung brings together some of Claude Rawson's more important essays and articles on eighteenth-century subjects, most belong to the last decade or so, but a few earlier pieces have also been included. Swift, Pope and Fielding are extensively treated, and there are discussions of Johnson, Boswell, Cowper, as well as some authors of the so-called Sentimental School. The volume also contains reappraisals of the concepts underlying such terms as 'neo-classic' and 'Augustan' in their application to eighteenth-century literature, and comments forthrightly on prevailing trends in the academic study of the subject in the last two decades.

Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture
Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture

Author: Pat Rogers

Publisher: London : Methuen

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13:

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First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature. Although the modern term 'Grub Street' has declined into vague metaphor, for the Augustan satirists it embodied not only an actual place but an emphatic lifestyle. Pat Rogers shows that the major satirists - Pope, Swift and Fielding - built a potent fiction surrounding the real circumstances in which the scribblers lived, and the importance of this aspect of their writing. The author first locates the original Grub Street, in what is now the Barbican, and then presents a detailed topographical tour of the surrounding area. With studies of a number of key authors, as well as the modern and metaphorical development of the term 'Grub Street', this book offers comprehensive insight into the nature of Augustan literature and the social conditions and concerns that inspired it.

A Hieroglyphic Vocabulary to the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead (Routledge Revivals)
A Hieroglyphic Vocabulary to the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead (Routledge Revivals)

Author: E. A. Wallis Budge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-07

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1317655117

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Containing a comprehensive dictionary of hieroglyphs to all the texts of the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead, and also to most of the supplementary Chapters of the Saïte and Graeco-Roman period that are usually appended to it, this volume will prove to be a staple part of a rounded appreciation of Ancient Egyptian literature. First published in 1911, the index includes all English equivalents to the Egyptian words. Phonetic values for each symbol are provided, the arrangement of the words and their various forms is arranged alphabetically throughout, and each hieroglyph is printed clearly: a user-friendly and concise tool for all enthusiasts, students and researchers.

The Augustan Vision
The Augustan Vision

Author: Pat Rogers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-24

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1000544516

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First published in 1974, The Augustan Vision looks at the entire spectacle of Augustan Society in an attempt to see English culture as a whole and thus gain greater insight into this critical period in English Literature. Later parts of the book explore poetry, drama, and aesthetics; that distinctive expression of the age, satire, where abuse is made into art, and the moral essay; and finally, the emerging novel, the crucial new form of this period. This is a must read for students and researchers of English literature.