UID:
almafu_9960119724902883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511548710
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0511548710
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9780511519048
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0511519044
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 20
Content:
Modern scholarship has represented Jonathan Swift as both an Old Whig and a non-Jacobite Tory. Ian Higgins' contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing and recorded opinion considers the interpretative problems they present. It explores the consonance of Swift's political writing with militant Jacobite Tory writing on affairs of Church and State, and demonstrates Swift's dissimilarity from the Old Whig writers with whom modern criticism has misleadingly identified him. Swift's writings of the 1690s, during the last four years of Queen Anne's reign, and after the Hanoverian succession are shown to contain Jacobitical political implications when examined in their context in the 'paper wars' of the period. Higgins concentrates on the partisan meanings of the great satires A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels, and represents Swift (as he was read by his contemporaries) as a disaffected High Church Anglican extremist with Jacobite inclinations.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. Swift's political character -- 2. Revolution, reaction and literary representation: Swift's Jacobite Tory contexts -- 3. The politics of A Tale of a Tub -- 4. The politics of Gulliver's Travels.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521025683
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521025680
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521418140
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521418143
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519048
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