Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Herausgeber: Bullard, Paddy; McLaverty, James

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Produktbeschreibung

An account of Swift's dealings with books and texts, showing how the business of print was transformed during his lifetime.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781316600955
• ISBN-10: 1316600955
• Artikelnr.: 44123772

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Paddy Bullard and James McLaverty; Part I. Swift's Books and
their Environment: 1. Swift as a manuscript poet Stephen Karian; 2. Leaving
the printer to his liberty: Swift and the London book trade, 1701-14 Ian
Gadd; 3. What Swift did in libraries Paddy Bullard; Part II. Some Species
of Swiftian Book: 4. The uses of the miscellany: Swift, Curll, and piracy
Pat Rogers; 5. Swift's Tale of a Tub and the mock book Marcus Walsh; 6.
Epistolary forms: published correspondence, letter-journals and books
Abigail Williams; 7. Exploring the bibliographical limits of Gulliver's
Travels Shef Rogers; 8. George Faulkner and Swift's collected works James
McLaverty; Part III. Swift's Books in their Broader Context: 9. Censorship,
libel and self-censorship Ian Higgins; 10. Swift's texts between Dublin and
London Adam Rounce; 11. Publishing posthumous Swift: Dean Swift to Walter
Scott Daniel Cook; 12. The mock-edition revisited: Swift to Mailer Claude
Rawson.