1st Edition
Order from Confusion Sprung Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper
Preface
Acknowledgments
Texts and Editions Used
Part I: Swift
1. The Characters of Swift’s Satire: Reflections on Swift, Johnson, and Human Restlessness
2. Gulliver’s Travels and Some Modern Fictions
3. A Reading of A Modest Proposal
Part II: Swift, Pope and Augustan Verse Satire
4. Swifts Poems
5. Slaughtering Satire
6. Pope’s Waste Land: Reflections on Mock-Heroic
7. Pope’s ‘Opus Magnum’ and An Essay on Man
8. ‘Neo-classic’ and ‘Augustan’
Part III: Fielding
9. Dialogue and Authorial Presence in Fielding’s Novels and Plays
10. A Journal From This World to the Next
11. Empson’s Tom Jones
Part IV: Others
12. Notes on ‘Delicacy’
13. π -ious Boswell
14. William Cowper and Christopher Smart
Part V: Appendix
15. More Providence than Wit: Some Recent Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Literature
Index
Biography
Claude Rawson is the author of several books on Swift, Fielding and other eighteenth-century authors, and of numerous articles and reviews both in specialist journals and in the Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review and London Review of Books. He is General Editor of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, the Blackwell Critical Biographies and the Unwin Critical Library.
