Jonathan Swift

Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises (eBook, ePUB)

Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other Works

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Swift's parodies are among his most fascinating works, but perhaps require most explication for the modern reader. Valerie Rumbold brings a new depth and detail to the editing of Swift's Bickerstaff papers, 'Polite Conversation', 'Directions to Servants' and other works on language and conduct. Highlights include a fresh investigation of the political and print contexts of the Bickerstaff papers, full commentaries on such smaller works as 'A Modest Defence of Punning' and 'On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland', identification and explanation of many additional sayings in 'Polite Conversation', and a detailed contextualisation of 'Directions to Servants' in contemporary domestic theory and practice. A substantial thematic Introduction is supplemented by an individual headnote and full annotation to each work. The Textual Introduction explores the publishing strategies adopted by Swift and his booksellers, and a separate Textual Account of each work presents and discusses changes in the texts over time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107702363
• Artikelnr.: 52998613

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms - such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, the Drapier - or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".

Inhaltsangabe

General editors' preface
Chronology
Introduction
A Meditation upon a Broom-stick
A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
Predictions for the Year 1708
The Accomplishment of the First of Mr Bickerstaff's Predictions
A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.
A Famous Prediction of Merlin, the British Wizard
Tatler no. 230
Harrison's Tatler no. 5
Harrison's Tatler no. 20
A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue
A Modest Defence of Punning
Hints towards an Essay on Conversation
On Good-Manners and Good-Breeding
Hints on Good Manners
The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Ellison
Of the Education of Ladies
A History of Poetry
A Discourse to Prove the Antiquity of the English Tongue
On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland
Polite Conversation
Directions to Servants
General Textual Introduction and Textual Accounts of Individual Works
Associated Materials: I. April Fool's Joke
II. Specimens of Irish English
III. Laws for the Dean's Servants
IV. Duty of Servants at Inns
V. Notes for Polite Conversation
VI. Fragment of a Preface for Directions to Servants
Appendices: A. A Dialogue in the Castilian Language
B. The Dying Speech of Tom Ashe
C. To my lord High Admirall. The Humble petition of the Doctor
D. 'Squire Bickerstaff Detected
E. An Answer to Bickerstaff
F. The Publisher to the Reader
G. The Attribution to Swift of Further Tatlers and Spectators
H. The Attribution to Swift of A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
I. The Last Farewell of Ebenezor Elliston
J. A Consultation of Four Physicians, upon a Lord that was Dying
K. A Certificate to a Discarded Servant
Bibliography
Index.