{"product_id":"jonathan-swift-longman-critical-readers-9780582225725","title":"Jonathan Swift Longman Critical Readers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of critical thinking situates the satire of Jonathan Swift within both its eighteenth-century contexts and our modern anxieties about personal identity and communication. Augustan satire at its most provocative is not simply concerned with the public matters of politics or religion, but also offers a precise medium in which to express the paradox of ironic detachment amidst deep conviction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe critics chosen for this volume demonstrate the complexity of Swift''s work. Its four sections explore matters of authorial identity, the relation between Swift''s writing and its historical context, the full range of his comments on gender, and his deployment of metaphor and irony to engage the reader. Swift has often been regarded as a writer who anticipated many twentieth-century cultural preoccupations, and this volume provides an opportunity to test just how modern he actually was. It also provides an answer to those who would wish to simplify his writing as that of T\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Epigraph Introduction \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Reading and Identity \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: Text and Context \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3: The Female Monster \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4: Writing and Meaning \u003c\/b\u003eFurther Reading Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018327490903,"sku":"9780582225725","price":61.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780582225725.jpg?v=1750776440","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jonathan-swift-longman-critical-readers-9780582225725","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}