Jonathan Swift and the eighteenth-century book / edited by Paddy Bullard and James McLaverty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bullard, Paddy, editor.

McLaverty, J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Swift, Jonathan.

Printing--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Printing.

Books--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Jonathan Swift & the Eighteenth-Century Book

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than those of any other single author, illustrate the range of developments that transformed print culture during the early Enlightenment. Swift was a prolific author and a frequent visitor at the printing house, and he wrote as critic and satirist about the nature of text. The shifting moods of irony, complicity and indignation that characterise his dealings with the book trade add a layer of complexity to the bibliographic record of his published works. The essays collected here offer the first comprehensive, integrated survey of that record. They shed new light on the politics of the eighteenth-century book trade, on Swift's innovations as a maker of books, on the habits and opinions revealed by his commentary on printed texts and on the re-shaping of the Swiftian book after his death.

Contents:

Swift as a manuscript poet / Stephen Karian

Leaving the printer to his liberty: Swift and the London book trade, 1701-14 / Ian Gadd

What Swift did in libraries / Paddy Bullard

The uses of the miscellany: Swift, Curll, and piracy / Pat Rogers

Swift's tale of a tub and the mock book / Marcus Walsh

Epistolary forms: published correspondence, letter-journals and books / Abigail Williams

Exploring the bibliographical limits of Gulliver's Travels / Shef Rogers

George Faulkner and Swift's collected works / James Mclaverty

Censorship, libel and self-censorship / Ian Higgins

Swift's texts between Dublin and London / Adam Rounce

Publishing posthumous Swift: Deane Swift to Walter Scott / Daniel Cook

The mock-edition revisited: Swift to Mailer / Claude Rawson.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89072-7

1-107-24127-8

1-316-60095-5

1-107-24756-X

1-107-24839-6

1-107-25005-6

1-107-25088-9

1-139-06089-9

1-107-24922-8

OCLC:

847643992