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"The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift is the first fully annotated scholarly edition ever undertaken of Swift's complete works in both verse and prose. The great editions of Swift by Herbert Davis and Harold Williams have remained standard for over half a century. We are all greatly indebted to them, but the time has come to replace or revise their texts and commentary in the light of subsequent historical, biographical and textual knowledge. Davis's sixteen-volume edition of the Prose Writings offered valuable introductions but no annotation. The commentary to his separate edition of The Drapier's Letters, and Williams's commentaries to the Poems and Journal to Stella, though excellent in their time, must now be supplemented by a considerable body of more recent scholarship. The Cambridge Edition's detailed introductions, notes and appendices aim to provide an informed understanding of Swift's place in the political and cultural history of England and Ireland, and to establish the historical, literary and bibliographical contexts of his immense achievement as a prose satirist, poet and political writer. The editors of individual volumes include distinguished historians, as well as leading scholars of eighteenth-century literature. For the Cambridge Edition, Swift's texts will be collate"--
Note:
'A tale of a tub' and otherworks -- Parodies, hoaxes, mock treatises: 'Polite conversation', 'Directions to servants' and other works -- Poems I -- Poems II -- English political writings 1701--1711: 'The examiner' and other works -- English political writings 1711--1714: 'The conduct of the allies' and other works -- Journal to Stella -- Later English political writings: 'The history of the four last years' and other works -- Writings on religion and the church to 1714: 'an argument against abolishing Christianity' and other works -- Writings on religion and the church after 1714: sermons and other works -- Irish political writings to 1725: Drapier's letters and other works -- Irish political writings after 1725: 'A modest proposal' and other works -- Gulliver's travels -- Personal and miscellaneous writings, fragments and marginalia.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Anthologie
Author information:
Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745
