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Jonathan Swift : The Critical Heritage.
Title:
Jonathan Swift : The Critical Heritage.
Author:
Williams, Kathleen.
ISBN:
9780203196953
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (359 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Jonathan Swift: The Critical Heritage -- Copyright -- General Editor's Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- 1. Dr. William King on a Tale of a Tub 1704 -- 2. Francis Atterbury on a Tale of a Tub 1704 -- 3. William Wotton on a Tale of a Tub 1705 -- 4. Richard Steele on a Project for the Advancement of Religion 1709 -- 5. John Dennis on the Examiner 1712 -- 6. The Aim of a Tale of a Tub 1714 -- 7. Sir Richard Blackmore on a Tale of a Tub 1716 -- 8. A Translator's Opinions of a Tale of a Tub 1721 -- 9. A Swiss View of a Tale of a Tub and the Battle of the Books 1721 -- 10. The Reception of Gulliver's Travels 1726 -- 11. Lady Mary Wortlby Montagu on Gulliver's Travels 1726 -- 12. An Anonymous Opinion of Gulliver's Travels 1726 -- 13. William Warburton on Swift and Human Nature 1727 -- 14. Voltaire on Swift 1727, 1734, 1756, 1767, 1777 -- 15. Abbe Desfontainesand Gulliver's Travels 1727,1730,1787 -- 16. Jonathan Smedley on Gulliver's Travels 1728 -- 17. Swift as Political Dictator 1728 -- 18. Anonymous Criticisms of Houyhnhnmland 1735 -- 19. George Faulkner on Swift's Poetry 1735 -- 20. The Duchess of Marlborough on Swift 1736 -- 21 Frangois Cartaud De La Villate on a Tale of a Tub 1736 -- 22. Samuel Richardson on Swift 1740, 1748, 1752, 1754 -- 23. Paradis De Moncrif on Gulliver's Travels 1743 -- 24. Henry Fielding on Swift 1745, 1751, 1752 -- 25. David Hume on Swift 1751, 1752, 1768 -- 26. Lord Orrery on Swift 1752 -- 27. Patrick Delany on Swift 1754 -- 28. Deaneswifton Gulliver's Travels and on Swift as a Poet 1755 -- 29. John Hawkes Worth on Swift 1755 -- 30. W. H. Dilworth on Swift 1758 -- 31. Edward Young on Gulliver's Travels 1759 -- 32. George Lord Lyttelton on Swift 1760 -- 33. A French Reissue of Gulliver's Travels 1762 -- 34. Oliver Goldsmith on Swift 1764 -- 35. Ralph Griffiths on Swift's 'cause' 1765.

36. Horacb Walpole and His Circle on Swift 1771, 1780 -- 37. Lord Monboddo on Gulliver's Travels 1776 -- 38. James Beattie on Gulliver's Travels, a Tale of a Tub, and the Day of Judgment 1776, 1783 -- 39. A French Comment on a Modest Proposal 1777 -- 40. Dr. Johnson on Swift 1779, 1785, 1791 -- 41. Samuel Bad Cock on Swift's 'true Wit' 1779 -- 42 James Harris on Gulliver's Travels 1781 -- 43 Joseph Warton on Swift's Descriptions 1782 -- 44. Swift's Characteristics as a Writer 1782 -- 45. Hugh Blair on Swift's Style 1783 -- 46. Thomas Sheridan on Swift 1784 -- 47. Incidental Comments on Gulliver's Travels 1789 -- 48. George-monck Berkeley on Swift 1789 -- 49. Thomas Ogle on Swift and Misanthropy 1790 -- 50. Swift as Satirist and Poet 1790 -- 51. William Godwin on Swift's Style 1797 -- 52. John Nichols on Swift 1801, 1828 -- 53. Alexander Chalmers on Swift's Style and Character 1803 -- 54. Swiftiana 1804 -- 55. John Aikin on Swift's Poetry 1804,1820 -- 56. Richard Payne Knight on the Plausibility of Gulliver's Travels 1805 -- 57. Nathan Drake on Swift 1805 -- 58. John Dunlop on the Background of Gulliver's Travels 1814 -- 59. Sir Walter Scott on Swift 1814 -- 60. Francis Jeffrey on Swift L8l6 -- 61. William Hazlitt on Swift L8l8 -- 62. Coleridge on Swift L8l8, 1825, 183o -- 63. William Monck Mason on Gulliver's Travels and a Modest Proposal 1819 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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