Swift's politics : a study in disaffection / Ian Higgins.
By: Higgins, Ian.
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006Description: xiii, 232 p.ISBN: 9780521025683 (pbk.); 0521025680 (pbk.); 9780521418140 (hardback); 0521418143 (hardback).Subject(s): Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History | Satire, English -- History and criticism | Conservatives in literatureDDC classification: 828.509 Summary: 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.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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