Routledge Revivals: Gulliver and the Gentle Reader (1991): Studies in Swift and Our Time - Softcover

Rawson, C J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138558842 ISBN 13: 9781138558847

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Originally published in 1973, Gulliver and the Gentle Reader critically examines the writing of Jonathan Swift. The book is predominately concerned with what Rawson coins ‘the "unofficial" energies’ which work below the surface of Swift’s conscious themes. Alongside this discussion, Rawson provides detailed studies on historical, cultural and psychological relationships, and the connections that exist between these areas and more extreme writers of the later period such as Breton, Mailer, and Yeats, as well as the connections with the writers such as his contemporary Pope, and those that followed such as Johnson, and Sterne. This book will be of interest to students of literature, as well as those researching in the area of literature.

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C J Rawson

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138558842
• ISBN 13: 9781138558847
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 206