Higgins, Ian.

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.

9780521025683 (pbk.) 0521025680 (pbk.) 9780521418140 (hardback) 0521418143 (hardback)


Politics and literature--History--Great Britain
Satire, English--History and criticism.
Conservatives in literature.

828.509 / HIG-S