The Reception Of Jonathan Swift In Europe -

Thoemmes Press. Used - Very Good. 2005. Hardcover. Cloth, no dj. Minor shelf-wear. Very Good. (Subject: Literary Criticism).

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London, U.K.: Thoemmes Press , 2005. Jonathan Swift has had a profound impact on almost all the national literatures of Continental Europe. The celebrated author of acknowledged masterpieces like A Tale of a Tub (1704), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729), the Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, was courted by innumerable translators, adaptors, and retellers, admired and challenged by shoals of critics, and creatively imitated by both novelists and playwrights, not only in Central Europe (Germany and Switzerland) but also in its northern (Denmark and Sweden) and southern (Italy, Spain, and Portugal) outposts, as well as its eastern (Poland and Russia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria) and Western parts - from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present day. Includes scholarly topics covering Swift's first voyages to Europe; Swiftian presence in Scandinavia; notes on the Polish reception; the Dean in Italy, Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, Russia; Swift's Romanian… Read More

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Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2005. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 416 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches.