عنوان

Swift and history :

(Number (ISBN

1316182169

(Number (ISBN

1316320952

(Number (ISBN

9781316182161

(Number (ISBN

9781316320952

Erroneous ISBN

110710176X

Erroneous ISBN

1107499275

Erroneous ISBN

9781107101760

Erroneous ISBN

9781107499270

Title Proper

Swift and history :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

politics and the English past /

First Statement of Responsibility

Ashley Marshall.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 282 pages)

Text of Note

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2015).

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-277) and index.

Text of Note

1. Swift and the historians, ancient and modern -- 2. Swift, Temple, and the history of England -- 3. The uses of history in Swiftian satire and polemic -- 4. "Swift's rhapsodical Tory-book" : the aims and motives of The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen -- 5. Swift and authority -- Conclusion: Swift's Tory historiography.

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Text of Note

"Swift has been said to have little interest in history; his attempts to write it have been disparaged and his desire to become Historiographer Royal ridiculed. Ashley Marshall argues that history mattered enormously to Swift. He read a vast amount of history and uses historical examples copiously in his own works. This study traces Swift's classical and modern historiographical inheritance; analyses his unsuccessful attempt to write a history of England; and offers radical re-reading of his History of the Four Last Years of the Queen. A systematic analysis of Swift's view of 'authority' is highly revealing. His attitudes toward power and authority, sovereigns' and subjects' rights, parliamentary representation, and succession are reflected in his lifelong engagement with and pervasive use of the past. Studying Swift and history enables a deeper understanding of his authoritarian and historiographically Tory outlook--and how it changed when Swift's party fell from power in 1714"--

Title

Swift and history

International Standard Book Number

9781107101760

Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745-- Criticism and interpretation.

Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745-- Political and social views.

Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745., History of the four last years of the queen.

Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745.

Tory Party (Great Britain)-- History-- 18th century.

Tory Party (Great Britain)

History of the four last years of the queen (Swift, Jonathan)

Historiography-- Political aspects-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.

Politics and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.

Historiography-- Political aspects.

Historiography.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Political and social views.

Politics and government.

Politics and literature.

England, Historiography.

Great Britain, Politics and government, 1660-1714.

Great Britain, Politics and government, 1714-1760.

England.

Great Britain.

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LIT-- 004120

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Edition

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Book number

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System Code

Marshall, Ashley

Date of Transaction

20200822173005.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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