These thirteen essays offer not only the "representations of Swift" to which its title refers but also a representation of Swift scholarship at the close of the twentieth century and a return to fundamental questions about the life, writing, and views of Swift, issues raised in part by literary scholarship's return to historicism but also powerfully suggestive of a return to biography.
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These thirteen essays offer not only the "representations of Swift" to which its title refers but also a representation of Swift scholarship at the close of the twentieth century and a return to fundamental questions about the life, writing, and views of Swift, issues raised in part by literary scholarship's return to historicism but also powerfully suggestive of a return to biography.
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Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 310 p., 24 cm. Contents: The Tale, Temple, and Swift's Irish aesthetic / David Deeming -- "This way of printing bits of books": the fiction of incompletion in A tale of a tub / Nick Rushworth -- Swift's Tale, the Renaissance anatomy, and humanist polemic / W. Scott Blanchard -- The authorial strategies of Swift's Verses on the death / Stephen Karian -- "He hates much trouble": Johnson's Life of Swift and the contours of biographical inheritance in late eighteenth-century England / J.T. Scanlan -- The Rupert Barber portraits of Jonathan Swift / Robert Folkenflik -- Swift's mythopoeic authority / Ann Cline Kelly -- Hints toward authoritative conversation: Swift's dialogical strategies in the letters and the life / Brian A. Connery -- Swift, women, and women readers: a feminist perspective on Swift's life / Louise Barnett -- Swift, Reynolds, and the lower orders / Sean Shesgreen -- Swift, postcolonialism, and Irish studies: the valence of ambivalence / Robert Mahony -- Speaking for the Irish nation: the drapier, the bishop, and the problems of colonial representation / Carole Fabricant -- Swift's satiric authority: prospects from the late twentieth-century perspective / Kenneth Craven. Subjects: Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 Criticism and interpretation. English literature 18th century History and criticism. 1 Kg. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 443922
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Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 310 p., 24 cm. Contents: The Tale, Temple, and Swift's Irish aesthetic / David Deeming -- This way of printing bits of books: the fiction of incompletion in A tale of a tub / Nick Rushworth -- Swift's Tale, the Renaissance anatomy, and humanist polemic / W. Scott Blanchard -- The authorial strategies of Swift's Verses on the death / Stephen Karian -- He hates much trouble: Johnson's Life of Swift and the contours of biographical inheritance in late eighteenth-century England / J.T. Scanlan -- The Rupert Barber portraits of Jonathan Swift / Robert Folkenflik -- Swift's mythopoeic authority / Ann Cline Kelly -- Hints toward authoritative conversation: Swift's dialogical strategies in the letters and the life / Brian A. Connery -- Swift, women, and women readers: a feminist perspective on Swift's life / Louise Barnett -- Swift, Reynolds, and the lower orders / Sean Shesgreen -- Swift, postcolonialism, and Irish studies: the valence of ambivalence / Robert Mahony -- Speaking for the Irish nation: the drapier, the bishop, and the problems of colonial representation / Carole Fabricant -- Swift's satiric authority: prospects from the late twentieth-century perspective / Kenneth Craven. Subjects: Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 Criticism and interpretation. English literature 18th century History and criticism. 3 Kg. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 443922
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Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:0874137977. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5805009
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First edition. 310 pages with index. Illustrated. Cloth. Fine in like dustjacket. These thirteen essays offer not only the "representations of Swift" to which its title refers but also a representation of Swift scholarship at the close of the twentieth century and a return to fundamental questions about the life, writing, and views of Swift, issues raised in part by literary scholarship's return to historicism but also powerfully suggestive of a return to biography. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 15163
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