Swift's politics : a study in disaffection /
Ian Higgins.
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- xiii, 232 p.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Warwick, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-226) and index.
Ian Higgins' contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing concentrates on the partisan meanings of the great satires A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels, and represents Swift (as he was read by his contemporaries) as a disaffected High Church Anglican extremist with Jacobite inclinations.