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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.

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Title Swift and History
Author Ashley Marshall
Binding Hardback
Edition Hardback
Pages 294
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication date 2015-04-23
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9781107101760 / 110710176X
Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 1.1 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 2.79 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: British
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Library of Congress subjects Swift, Jonathan - Criticism and, Great Britain - Politics and government -
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015001830
Dewey Decimal Code 907.202

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