Swift's Travels: Eighteenth-Century Satire and Its Legacy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521879552)

As the greatest satirist in the English language, Jonathan Swift was both admired and feared in his own time for the power of his writing, and hugely influential on writers who followed him. Swift transformed models such as utopian writing, political pamphleteering and social critique with his dark and uncompromising vision of the human condition, deepening the outlook of contemporaries such as Alexander Pope, and leaving a legacy of Swiftian satire in the work of Hogarth, Fielding, Austen and Beckett, among others. This collection of essays, with its distinguished list of international contributors, centres on Swift, the genres and authors who influenced him, and his impact on satire and satirists from his own time to the twentieth century.

Author: Nicholas Hudson
ISBN-10: 0521879558
ISBN-13: 9780521879552
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2008
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 12/12/2008 pg. 25