Jonathan Swift

by Nigel Wood

Book Overview

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. The critics chosen for this volume demonstrate the complexity of Swift's work. Its four sections explore matters of authorial identity, the relation between Swift's writing and its historical context, the full range of his comments on gender, and his deployment of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138160350
• ISBN13: 9781138160354
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"