Swift's Irish Writings: Selected Prose and Poetry

This edition presents Jonathan Swift's most important Irish writings in both prose and verse, together with an introduction, head notes and annotations that shed new light on the full context and significance of each piece. Familiar works such as "Gulliver's Travels" and "A Tale of a Tub" acquire new and deeper meanings when considered within the Irish frameworks presented in the edition. Differing in noteworthy ways from the more traditional, canonical, Anglocentric picture conveyed by other published volumes, the Swift that emerges from these pages is a brilliant polemicist, popular satirist, political agitator, playful versifier, tormented Jeremiah, and Irish patriot.

Author: C. Fabricant
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/21/2010
Pages: 281
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9781349385911

About the Author

CAROLE FABRICANT is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, USA.

ROBERT MAHONY is Professor of English at the Catholic University of America, USA.