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Originally published in 1985, Order From Confusion Sprung brings
together some of Claude Rawson's more important essays and articles
on eighteenth-century subjects, most belong to the last decade or
so, but a few earlier pieces have also been included. Swift, Pope
and Fielding are extensively treated, and there are discussions of
Johnson, Boswell, Cowper, as well as some authors of the so-called
Sentimental School. The volume also contains reappraisals of the
concepts underlying such terms as 'neo-classic' and 'Augustan' in
their application to eighteenth-century literature, and comments
forthrightly on prevailing trends in the academic study of the
subject in the last two decades.
Originally published in 1972, Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal
Under Stress, focuses upon the various disruptive forces in the
literary culture of the Augustan period - upon 'Nature's Dance of
Death'. His discussion centres on aspects of Fielding's writing in
relation to Augustan culture and civilization. He also relates the
works of such Augustans as Pope, Swift and Smollett, as well as
some twentieth century writings, to his overall theme. He treats,
among other topics the crises in stylistic 'urbanity' and in the
'mock-heroic' styles of this historically and artistically
fascinating period.
Originally published in 1972, Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal
Under Stress, focuses upon the various disruptive forces in the
literary culture of the Augustan period - upon 'Nature's Dance of
Death'. His discussion centres on aspects of Fielding's writing in
relation to Augustan culture and civilization. He also relates the
works of such Augustans as Pope, Swift and Smollett, as well as
some twentieth century writings, to his overall theme. He treats,
among other topics the crises in stylistic 'urbanity' and in the
'mock-heroic' styles of this historically and artistically
fascinating period.
Originally published in 1985, Order From Confusion Sprung brings
together some of Claude Rawson's more important essays and articles
on eighteenth-century subjects, most belong to the last decade or
so, but a few earlier pieces have also been included. Swift, Pope
and Fielding are extensively treated, and there are discussions of
Johnson, Boswell, Cowper, as well as some authors of the so-called
Sentimental School. The volume also contains reappraisals of the
concepts underlying such terms as 'neo-classic' and 'Augustan' in
their application to eighteenth-century literature, and comments
forthrightly on prevailing trends in the academic study of the
subject in the last two decades.
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Gulliver's Travels (Paperback)
Jonathan Swift; Edited by Claude Rawson, Ian Higgins
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In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a
reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just
experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been
impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel
book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the
inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag,
Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. An extraordinarily
skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by
turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift's alter ego plays
tricks on us, and our gullibility uncovers one of the world's most
disturbing satires of the human condition.
The fullest, most up-to-date paperback of Gulliver's Travels
currently available, this new edition contains an astute analysis
of the nature of Swift's satire. It includes the changing
frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive
early editions and whose subtle changes contribute to the reader's
uncertainty about the veracity of the author. A new introduction by
Claude Rawson draws on the latest scholarship and considers Swift's
role-playing and the relationship of the author to Gulliver.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
“Contexts” features a generous selection of contemporary
materials, among them Swift's letters, autobiographical documents,
and personal writings. “Criticism” provides readers with a wide
chronological and thematic range of scholarly interpretations,
divided into two sections. The first, “1745–1940,” includes
assessments by Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, William Makepeace Thackeray, D. H. Lawrence, W. B.
Yeats, F. R. Leavis, and André Breton, among others. The second,
“After 1940,” is by subject and collects critical discussions
of A Tale of the Tub, the poems, the English and Irish politics,
and Gulliver’s Travels, by Hugh Kenner, Marcus Walsh, Irvin
Ehrenpreis, Penelope Wilson, Derek Mahon, S. J. Connolly, George
Orwell, R. S. Crane, Jenny Mezciems, Ian Higgins, and Claude
Rawson. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
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Jonathan Wild (Paperback)
Henry Fielding; Introduction by Claude Rawson; Notes by Linda Bree; Revised by Hugh Amory
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'he carried Good-nature to that wonderful and uncommon Height, that
he never did a single Injury to Man or Woman, by which he himself
did not expect to reap some Advantage' The real-life Jonathan Wild,
gangland godfather and self-styled 'Thieftaker General', controlled
much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes
in 1725. Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted
attention; after his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and
satirists made connections between his success and the triumph of
corruption in high places. Henry Fielding built on these narratives
to produce one of the greatest sustained satires in the English
language. Published in 1743, at a time when the modern novel had
yet to establish itself as a fixed literary form, Jonathan Wild is
at the same time a brilliant black comedy, an incisive political
satire, and a profoundly serious exploration of human 'greatness'
and 'goodness'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The chapters constituting this book are different in subject and
method, striking testimony to the range of Paulson's interests and
the versatility of his critical powers. In his prolific career he
has produced extensive analysis of art, poetry, fiction, and
aesthetics produced in England between 1650 and 1830. Paulson's
unique contribution has to do with his understanding of "seeing"
and "reading" as closely related enterprises, and "popular" forms
in art and literature as intimately connected-connections
illustrated by literary critics and art historians here. Every
essay shares some of the concerns and methods that characterize
Paulson's wonderfully idiosyncratic thought-except for the final
essay, an attempt systematically to analyze Paulson's critical
principles and methods. Recurrent themes are a concern with satire
in the eighteenth century; a connection between verbal and visual
reading; an insistence on the importance of individual artistic
choices to the history of culture; an attention to the aims and
motives of individual makers of art; and a sensitivity to the
crucial links between high and low art. This volume offers rich
explorations of a range of subjects: Swift's relationship to
Congreve; Zoffany's condemnation of Gillray and Hogarth, and
broader implications for the role of art in public discourse; the
presentation of mourning in the work of the Welsh artist and writer
Edward Pugh; G. M. Woodward's "Coffee-House Characters,"
representing a turn from satire on morals towards satire on
manners; Adam Smith's evolving aesthetic program; Samuel
Richardson's notions of social reading. The discussions represent a
variety of exemplifications of the Paulsonesque, showing a concern
with satiric representation in mixed media, with different forms of
heterodoxy and iconoclasm, and with the values of producers of
popular and polite culture in this period.
Jonathan Swift was the most influential political commentator of
his time, in both England and Ireland. His writings are a major
source for historians of the eighteenth century, as well as
including some of the greatest works of satire in verse and prose.
This volume presents wide-ranging new perspectives on Swift's
literary and political achievement in its English and Irish
contexts, bringing together some of the most energetic current
scholarship on the subject in both historical and literary studies.
The essays consider Swift's attitude to Dissenters, his
relationship with Walpole, and his place in, and understanding of,
the political demography of colonial Ireland. They also examine
Swift's poems and pamphlets, and his hoaxes and satires, showing
his extraordinary versatility in a wide variety of genres. Full of
original insights, this volume offers a rich and important new
treatment of Swift's central role in eighteenth-century political
and literary culture.
Jonathan Swift's influence on the writings and politics of England
and Ireland was reinforced by a combination of contradictory
forces: an authoritarian attachment to tradition and rule, and a
vivid responsiveness to the disorders of a modernity he resisted
and yet helped to create. He was, perhaps even more than Pope, a
dominant voice of his times. The rich variety of the literary
culture to which he belonged shows the penetration of his ideas,
personality and style. This is true of writers who were his friends
and admirers (Pope), of adversaries (Mandeville, Johnson), of
several who became great ironists in his shadow (Gibbon, Austen),
and of some surprising examples of Swiftian afterlife (Chatterton).
Claude Rawson, leading scholar of the works of Swift, brings
together recent essays, as well as classic earlier work extensively
revised, to offer fresh insights into an era when Swift's voice was
a pervasive presence.
Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was
temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most
brilliant satire, A Tale of a Tub, the aggressive vitality of the
narrative is designed, for all the intensity of its sting, never to
lose its cool. Yet Swift's angers are partly self-implicating,
since his own temperament was close to the things he attacked, and
behind his angers are deep self-divisions. Though he regarded
himself as 'English' and despised the Irish 'natives' over whom the
English ruled, Swift became the hero of an Irish independence he
would not have desired. In this magisterial account, Claude Rawson,
widely considered the leading Swift scholar of our time, brings
together recent work, as well as classic earlier discussions
extensively revised, offering fresh insights into Swift's bleak
view of human nature, his brilliant wit, and the indignations and
self-divisions of his writings and political activism.
Jonathan Swift was the most influential political commentator of
his time, in both England and Ireland. His writings are a major
source for historians of the eighteenth century, as well as
including some of the greatest works of satire in verse and prose.
This volume presents wide-ranging new perspectives on Swift's
literary and political achievement in its English and Irish
contexts, bringing together some of the most energetic current
scholarship on the subject in both historical and literary studies.
The essays consider Swift's attitude to Dissenters, his
relationship with Walpole, and his place in, and understanding of,
the political demography of colonial Ireland. They also examine
Swift's poems and pamphlets, and his hoaxes and satires, showing
his extraordinary versatility in a wide variety of genres. Full of
original insights, this volume offers a rich and important new
treatment of Swift's central role in eighteenth-century political
and literary culture.
This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to
twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from
Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others,
Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S.
Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best.
Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's
achievement and importance, with readings of the most important
poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal
responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic
jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen
understanding.
This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to
twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from
Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others,
Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S.
Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best.
Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's
achievement and importance, with readings of the most important
poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal
responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic
jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen
understanding.
Now best known for three great novels - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews
and Amelia - Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was one of the most
controversial figures of his time. Prominent first as a playwright,
then as a novelist and political journalist, and finally as a
justice of peace, Fielding made a substantial contribution to
eighteenth-century culture, and was hugely influential in the
development of the novel as a form, both in Britain and more widely
in Europe. This collection of specially-commissioned essays by
leading scholars describes and analyses the many facets of
Fielding's work in theatre, fiction, journalism and politics. In
addition it assesses his unique contribution to the rise of the
novel as the dominant literary form, the development of the law,
and the political and literary culture of eighteenth-century
Britain. Including a Chronology and Guide to Further Reading, this
volume offers a comprehensive account of Fielding's life and work.
Now best known for three great novels - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews
and Amelia - Henry Fielding (1707???1754) was one of the most
controversial figures of his time. Prominent first as a playwright,
then as a novelist and political journalist, and finally as a
justice of peace, Fielding made a substantial contribution to
eighteenth-century culture, and was hugely influential in the
development of the novel as a form, both in Britain and more widely
in Europe. This collection of specially-commissioned essays by
leading scholars describes and analyses the many facets of
Fielding's work in theatre, fiction, journalism and politics. In
addition it assesses his unique contribution to the rise of the
novel as the dominant literary form, the development of the law,
and the political and literary culture of eighteenth-century
Britain. Including a Chronology and Guide to Further Reading, this
volume offers a comprehensive account of Fielding's life and work.
This is the most comprehensive account to date of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey, but a multi-disciplinary study of how the understanding of literature in the modern era was shaped by developments in intellectual, cultural and social history. It provides an authoritative historical overview in all areas of literary studies. Extensive bibliographies supply detailed guidance for further research.
Jonathan Swift's influence on the writings and politics of England
and Ireland was reinforced by a combination of contradictory
forces: an authoritarian attachment to tradition and rule, and a
vivid responsiveness to the disorders of a modernity he resisted
and yet helped to create. He was, perhaps even more than Pope, a
dominant voice of his times. The rich variety of the literary
culture to which he belonged shows the penetration of his ideas,
personality and style. This is true of writers who were his friends
and admirers (Pope), of adversaries (Mandeville, Johnson), of
several who became great ironists in his shadow (Gibbon, Austen),
and of some surprising examples of Swiftian afterlife (Chatterton).
Claude Rawson, leading scholar of the works of Swift, brings
together recent essays, as well as classic earlier work extensively
revised, to offer fresh insights into an era when Swift's voice was
a pervasive presence.
This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary
criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike
previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of
critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the
understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed,
at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy,
psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other
disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern
literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts
themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and
rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time
professional activity catering for an expanding literate public.
The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship.
Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised
study.
We are obsessed with 'barbarians'. They are the 'not us', who don't speak our language, or 'any language', whom we depise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or admiration, and an intense sexual interest; whom we often outdo in the barbarism we impute to them; and whose suspected resemblance to us haunts our introspections and imaginings. This book looks afresh at how we have confronted the idea of 'barbarism', in ourselves and others, from the conquest of the Americas to the Nazi Holocaust, through the voices of many writers, including Montaigne, Swift and Shaw.
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