Swift's Politics - A Study in Disaffection (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Release date:	May 1994
First published:	1994
Authors:	Ian Higgins
Dimensions:	236 x 158 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-41814-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN:	0-521-41814-3
Barcode:	9780521418140

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