Modern scholarship has represented Jonathan Swift as both an Old
Whig and a non-Jacobite Tory. Ian Higgins' contextual reassessment
of Swift's political writing and recorded opinion considers the
interpretative problems they present. It explores the consonance of
Swift's political writing with militant Jacobite Tory writing on
affairs of Church and State, and demonstrates Swift's dissimilarity
from the Old Whig writers with whom modern criticism has
misleadingly identified him. Swift's writings of the 1690s, during
the last four years of Queen Anne's reign, and after the Hanoverian
succession are shown to contain Jacobitical political implications
when examined in their context in the 'paper wars' of the period.
Higgins concentrates on the partisan meanings of the great satires
A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels, and represents Swift (as he
was read by his contemporaries) as a disaffected High Church
Anglican extremist with Jacobite inclinations.
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