By (author) Jonathan Swift , Edited by Claude Rawson , Edited by Ian Higgins
Format Paperback | 944 pages
Dimensions 145 x 236 x 28mm | 714g
Publication date 09 Sep 2009
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Publication City/Country New York, United States
Language English
Edition Critical
Edition Statement Critical edition
Illustrations note 1 map, illustrations
ISBN10 0393930653
ISBN13 9780393930658
页面参数仅供参考,具体以实物为准
内容简介
"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 Andre 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.
Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination: 1492-1945, English Satire and the Satire Tradition, and Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830: Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition. He is General Editor of the Works of Jonathan Swift (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor, with Ian Higgins, of the Oxford World Classics edition of Gulliver's Travels. Ian Higgins is the author of Swift's Politics: A Study in Disaffection (1994) and Jonathan Swift (2004), and is an editor (with Claude Rawson) of Gulliver's Travels (2005). He is a Reader in English at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, where he teaches courses on early modern and eighteenth-century literature and on British imperial fiction.
Claude Rawson是耶鲁大学Maynard Mack的英语教授。他是《上帝,格列佛和种族灭绝:野蛮与欧洲想象力:1492-1945年》,《英国讽刺与讽刺传统》和《讽刺与情感,1660-1830年:英国奥古斯都传统的重音》的作者。他是《乔纳森·斯威夫特》(剑桥大学出版社)作品的总编辑,并与伊恩·希金斯合着了《格列佛游记》的牛津世界经典版。伊恩·希金斯(Ian Higgins)是《雨燕的政治:对疾病的研究》(1994)和乔纳森·雨燕(2004)的作者,也是《格列佛游记》(2005)的编辑(与克劳德·罗森合着)。他是澳大利亚堪培拉澳大利亚国立大学的英语读者,
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