1st Edition

Jonathan Swift

By Nigel Wood Copyright 1999
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

This collection of critical thinking situates the satire of Jonathan Swift within both its eighteenth-century contexts and our modern anxieties about personal identity and communication. Augustan satire at its most provocative is not simply concerned with the public matters of politics or religion, but also offers a precise medium in which to express the paradox of ironic detachment amidst deep... Read more
General Editors' Preface  Acknowledgements  Abbreviations  Epigraph  Introduction  Part 1: Reading and Identity 
Part 2: Text and Context  Part 3: The Female Monster  Part 4: Writing and Meaning  Further Reading  Index

Biography

Nigel Wood