Book ; Online: Jonathan Swift
(Bloom's classic critical views)
2009
Abstract: Best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels , Jonathan Swift is one of literature's great ...
Institution | ebrary, Inc |
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Author's details | edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom; Daniel Cook, volume editor |
Series title | Bloom's classic critical views |
Abstract | Best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels , Jonathan Swift is one of literature's great satirists. Born and educated in Ireland, Swift became a politician and clergyman in England, where he wrote essays, pamphlets, poems, and fiction that addressed the political issues and social conditions of his time. In Gulliver's Travels , he introduced the allegorical settings of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the island of the Houyhnhnms, as well as the term 'yahoos' in a playful, but dark, satirical reflection of humankind. This addition to Bloom's Classic Critical Views includes a chronology |
Keywords | Authors, English/Criticism and interpretation |
Language | English |
Size | Online-Ressource (xii, 207 p) |
Publisher | Bloom's Literary Criticism |
Publishing place | New York |
Document type | Book ; Online |
Note | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN | 0791086704 ; 1282435434 ; 9781282435438 ; 9781438127606 ; 9781604134346 ; 9780791086704 ; 143812760X ; 1604134348 |
Database | Library catalogue of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Hannover |
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