Jonathan Swift in Context

A comprehensive guide to the writings, life, and times of Jonathan Swift, valuable for students and researchers alike.

The comprehensive one-stop guide to the writings, life, and times of Jonathan Swift. With forty-four tightly-focused chapters, this book communicates the latest academic research on Swift in a way that will engage undergraduate students while also remaining useful for advanced scholars. An indispensable volume for Swift students and teachers.Jonathan Swift remains the most important and influential satirist in the English language. The author of Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub, in addition to vast numbers of political pamphlets, satirical verses, sermons, and other kinds of text, Swift is one of the most versatile writers in the literary canon. His writings were always closely intertwined with the English and Irish worlds in which he lived. The forty-four essays collected in Jonathan Swift in Context advance the latest research on Swift in a way that will engage undergraduate students while also remaining useful for scholars. Reflecting the best of current and ongoing scholarship, the contextual approach advanced by this volume will help to make Swift's works even more powerful and resonant to modern audiences.