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Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Hardcover, New)
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Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Hardcover, New)
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Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation
in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than
those of any other single author, illustrate the range of
developments that transformed print culture during the early
Enlightenment. Swift was a prolific author and a frequent visitor
at the printing house, and he wrote as critic and satirist about
the nature of text. The shifting moods of irony, complicity and
indignation that characterise his dealings with the book trade add
a layer of complexity to the bibliographic record of his published
works. The essays collected here offer the first comprehensive,
integrated survey of that record. They shed new light on the
politics of the eighteenth-century book trade, on Swift's
innovations as a maker of books, on the habits and opinions
revealed by his commentary on printed texts and on the re-shaping
of the Swiftian book after his death.
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