Jonathan Swift : The Critical Heritage

ISBN-13: 9780415139083 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 360 str.

K. Williams; Kathleen Williams

Opis

This series gathers together a body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation.

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Introduction; Note on the Text; Chapter 1 Dr. William King on A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 2 Francis Atterbury on A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 3 William Wotton on A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 4 Richard Steele on A Project for the Advancement of Religion; Chapter 5 John Dennis on the Examiner; Chapter 6 The aim of A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 7 Sir Richard Blackmore on A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 8 A translator’s opinions of A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 9 A Swiss view of A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books; Chapter 10 The reception of Gulliver’s Travels; Chapter 11 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Gulliver’s Travels; Chapter 12 An anonymous opinion of Gulliver’s Travels; Chapter 13 William Warburton on Swift and human nature; Chapter 14 Voltaire on Swift; Chapter 15 Abbé Desfontaines and Gulliver’s Travels; Chapter 16 Jonathan Smedley on Gulliver’s Travels; Chapter 17 Swift as political dictator; Chapter 18 Anonymous criticisms of Houyhnhnmland; Chapter 19 George Faulkner on Swift’s poetry; Chapter 20 The Duchess of Marlborough on Swift; Chapter 21 François Cartaud de la Villate on A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 22 Samuel Richardson on Swift; Chapter 23 Paradis de Moncrif on Gulliver’s Travels; Chapter 24 Henry Fielding on Swift; Chapter 25 David Hume on Swift; Chapter 26 Lord Orrery on Swift; Chapter 27 Patrick Delany on Swift; Chapter 28 Deane Swift on Gulliver’s Travels and on Swift as a poet; Chapter 29 John Hawkesworth on Swift; Chapter 30 W. H. Dilworth on Swift; Chapter 31 Edward Young on Gulliver’s Travels; Chapter 32 George Lord Lyttelton on Swift; Chapter 33 A French reissue of Gulliver’s Travels; Chapter 34 Oliver Goldsmith on Swift; Chapter 35 Ralph Griffiths on Swift’s ‘Cause’; Chapter 36 Horace Walpole and his circle on Swift; Chapter 37 Lord Monboddo on Gulliver’s Travels; Chapter 38 James Beattie on Gulliver’s Travels, A Tale of a Tub, and The Day of Judgment; Chapter 39 A French comment on A Modest Proposal; Chapter 40 Dr. Johnson on Swift; Chapter 41 Samuel Badcock on Swift’s ‘true wit’; Chapter 42 James Harris on Gulliver’s Travels; Chapter 43 Joseph Warton on Swift’s descriptions; Chapter 44 Swift’s characteristics as a writer; Chapter 45 Hugh Blair on Swift’s style; Chapter 46 Thomas Sheridan on Swift; Chapter 47 Incidental comments on Gulliver’s Travels; Chapter 48 George-Monck Berkeley on Swift; Chapter 49 Thomas Ogle on Swift and misanthropy; Chapter 50 Swift as satirist and poet; Chapter 51 William Godwin on Swift’s style; Chapter 52 John Nichols on Swift; Chapter 53 Alexander Chalmers on Swift’s style and character; Chapter 54 Swiftiana; Chapter 55 John Aikin on Swift’s poetry; Chapter 56 56. Richard Payne Knight on the plausibility of Gulliver’s Travels; Chapter 57 57. Nathan Drake on Swift; Chapter 58 John Dunlop on the background of Gulliver’s Travels; Chapter 59 Sir Walter Scott on Swift; Chapter 60 Francis Jeffrey on Swift; Chapter 61 William Hazlitt on Swift; Chapter 62 Coleridge on Swift; Chapter 63 William Monck Mason on Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal;

O autorze

Kathleen Williams