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  • Gulliver's Travels

    by Jonathan Swift ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.' In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but how far can we rely on a narrator whose identity is elusive and whoses inventiveness is self-evident? ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Life of Samuel Johnson

    Introduction by Claude Rawson

    by James Boswell ...
    One of the greatest and most compelling of all biographies in literature had its beginnings on a fateful day in London in 1763, when young James Boswell determinedly attached himself to the dominant literary figure of his age—the splendidly humane, devastatingly witty, often troubled Dr. Samuel Johnson. What followed was one of the most famous of literary friendships, one that Boswell carefully ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Life of Jonathan Swift

    by Thomas Lockwood ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
    Presents a fresh account of the life history and creative imagination of Jonathan SwiftClassic satires such as Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub express radical positions, yet were written by the most conservative of men. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin and spent most of his life in Ireland, never traveling outside the British Isles. An Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman, ... Read more

    $44.00 USD

  • Swift and Others

    by Claude Rawson ...
    Jonathan Swift's influence on the writings and politics of England and Ireland was reinforced by a combination of contradictory forces: an authoritarian attachment to tradition and rule, and a vivid responsiveness to the disorders of a modernity he resisted and yet helped to create. He was, perhaps even more than Pope, a dominant voice of his times. The rich variety of the literary culture to ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Gulliver's Travels

    by Jonathan Swift ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.' In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but how far can we rely on a narrator whose identity is elusive and whoses inventiveness is self-evident? ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

    by Claude Rawson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Malone

    Great Shakespeareans: Volume I

    Edited by Prof Claude Rawson ...
    Series series Great Shakespeareans
    Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson and Edmond Malone to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. ... Read more

    $198.49 USD

  • Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics

    Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson

    by John Barrell, Ann Bermingham, Robert Folkenflik, Robert D. Hume, Michael McKeon, Mary Poovey, William L. Pressly, Claude Rawson, J. Hillis Miller ...
    The chapters constituting this book are different in subject and method, striking testimony to the range of Paulson’s interests and the versatility of his critical powers. In his prolific career he has produced extensive analysis of art, poetry, fiction, and aesthetics produced in England between 1650 and 1830. Paulson’s unique contribution has to do with his understanding of “seeing” and “reading ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal Under Stress (1972)

    'Nature's Dance of Death' and Other Studies

    by Claude Rawson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1972, Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal Under Stress, focuses upon the various disruptive forces in the literary culture of the Augustan period – upon ‘Nature’s Dance of Death’. His discussion centres on aspects of Fielding’s writing in relation to Augustan culture and civilization. He also relates the works of such Augustans as Pope, Swift and Smollett, as well as some ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Swift's Angers

    by Claude Rawson ...
    Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most brilliant satire, A Tale of a Tub, the aggressive vitality of the narrative is designed, for all the intensity of its sting, never to lose its cool. Yet Swift's angers are partly self-implicating, since his own temperament was close to the things he attacked, and behind his ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Order from Confusion Sprung

    Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper

    by Claude Rawson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1985, Order From Confusion Sprung brings together some of Claude Rawson's more important essays and articles on eighteenth-century subjects, most belong to the last decade or so, but a few earlier pieces have also been included. Swift, Pope and Fielding are extensively treated, and there are discussions of Johnson, Boswell, Cowper, as well as some authors of the so-called ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding

    Edited by Claude Rawson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Now best known for three great novels - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews and Amelia - Henry Fielding (1707–54) was one of the most controversial figures of his time. Prominent first as a playwright, then as a novelist and political journalist, and finally as a justice of peace, Fielding made a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century culture, and was hugely influential in the development of the ... Read more

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