The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521002834 ISBN 13: 9780521002837

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

In addition to ensuring broad coverage of Jonathan Swift's writing by including early, as well as more well-known later works, this Companion offers access to current critical and theoretical issues concerning the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift's problematic relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland, and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicized age.

About this title

Book Description:

The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift explores crucial dimensions of Swift's life and works. As well as ensuring a broad coverage of Swift's writing--including early and later works as well as the better known and the lesser known - the Companion also offers a way into current critical and theoretical issues surrounding the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift's vexed relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland; and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicised age.

About the Author:

Christopher Fox is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is the author of Locke and the Scriblerians: Identity and Consciousness in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0521002834
• ISBN 13: 9780521002837
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302
• Editor: Fox Christopher