PARODIES, HOAXES, MOCK TREATISES: POLITE CONVERSATION, DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS AND OTHER WORKS

Swift, Jonathan [Author]; Rumbold, Valerie [Editor]

ISBN 10: 052184326X ISBN 13: 9780521843263

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013

Language: English

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Octavo, 821 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine light and dark blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Heavy rubbing to edges of dust jacket. Tearing to front hinge at top edge of dust jacket. Mild general shelf wear to boards. Textblock clean. Shelved above Science. 1389281. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1389281

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Title: PARODIES, HOAXES, MOCK TREATISES: POLITE ...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: First Edition.

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Swift's parodies are among his most fascinating works, but perhaps require most explication for the modern reader. Valerie Rumbold brings a new depth and detail to the editing of Swift's Bickerstaff papers, 'Polite Conversation', 'Directions to Servants' and other works on language and conduct. Highlights include a fresh investigation of the political and print contexts of the Bickerstaff papers, full commentaries on such smaller works as 'A Modest Defence of Punning' and 'On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland', identification and explanation of many additional sayings in 'Polite Conversation', and a detailed contextualisation of 'Directions to Servants' in contemporary domestic theory and practice. A substantial thematic Introduction is supplemented by an individual headnote and full annotation to each work. The Textual Introduction explores the publishing strategies adopted by Swift and his booksellers, and a separate Textual Account of each work presents and discusses changes in the texts over time.

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This volume of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, containing a fully annotated edition of Bickerstaff papers, 'Polite Conversation', 'Directions to Servants' and other works, will be the standard reference edition for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

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