Swift's Politics: A Study in Disaffection

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought Series)

by Ian Higgins

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521025680

ISBN13:9780521025683

Release Date:April 2006

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.81 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory English Literature History & Criticism Humor Humor & Entertainment Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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