Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University. He is a General Editor for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift and author of God, Gulliver and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination 1492-1945 (2001). He is most recently the editor of Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift: A Norton Critical Edition (co-edited with Ian Higgins, 2010); Great Shakespeareans: Volume 1, Dryden Pope, Johnson, Malone (2010); Literature and Politics in the Age of Swift: English and Irish Perspectives (Cambridge, 2010) and The Cambridge Companion to English Poets (Cambridge, 2011).
Introduction: not Timons Manner
Part I. Ireland: 1. Swift, Ireland and the paradoxes of ethnicity
2. The injured lady and the drapier: a reading of Swift's Irish tracts
Part II. Fiction: 3. The mock-edition revisited: Swift to Mailer
4. Gulliver's Travels
5. Swift's 'I' narrators
Part III. Poetry: 6. Rage and raillery and Swift: the case of Cadenus and Vanessa
7. Vanessa as a reader of Gulliver's Travels
8. Swift's poetry: an overview
9. 'I The Lofty Stile Decline': vicissitudes of the 'heroick strain' in Swift's poems
10. Savage indignation revisited: Swift, Yeats, and the 'cry' of liberty.
