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A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
Jonathan Swift
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Description for A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
hardcover. An authoritative scholarly 2010 edition of Swift's satiric masterpiece, with full textual apparatus and annotation. Editor(s): Walsh, Marcus. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift. Num Pages: 681 pages, 19 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1216.
This volume contains the three works which together make up Jonathan Swift's early satiric and intellectual masterpiece, A Tale of a Tub: the Tale itself, The Battel of the Books, and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. Incorporating much new knowledge, this 2010 edition provides the first full scholarly treatment of this important work for fifty years. The introduction discusses publication, composition, and authorship; sources, analogues and generic models; reception; and religious, scientific and literary contexts (including the ancients and moderns controversy). Detailed explanatory notes address many previously unexplained issues in this famously rich and difficult work. Texts have been ... Read more
This volume contains the three works which together make up Jonathan Swift's early satiric and intellectual masterpiece, A Tale of a Tub: the Tale itself, The Battel of the Books, and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. Incorporating much new knowledge, this 2010 edition provides the first full scholarly treatment of this important work for fifty years. The introduction discusses publication, composition, and authorship; sources, analogues and generic models; reception; and religious, scientific and literary contexts (including the ancients and moderns controversy). Detailed explanatory notes address many previously unexplained issues in this famously rich and difficult work. Texts have been ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
686
Condition
New
Series
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift
Number of Pages
681
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521828949
SKU
V9780521828949
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About Jonathan Swift
Marcus Walsh is Kenneth Allott Professor of Literature at the University of Liverpool.
Reviews for A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
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