Swift and History

Swift and History

Politics and the English Past

Marshall, Ashley (University of Nevada, Reno)

Cambridge University Press

08/2017

292

Mole

Inglês

9781107499270

15 a 20 dias

Ashley Marshall explores the significance of history to the life and the writings of Jonathan Swift. This illuminating study includes an analysis of Swift's attempt to write a history of England, his attitudes toward power and authority, and offers a radical re-reading of the History of the Four Last Years.
Introduction; 1. Swift and the historians, ancient and modern; 2. Swift, Temple, and the history of England; 3. The uses of history in Swiftian satire and polemic; 4. 'Swift's rhapsodical Tory-book': the aims and motives of The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen; 5. Swift and authority; Conclusion: Swift's Tory historiography; Bibliography.
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