Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other Works

Jonathan Swift

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Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises

Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other Works

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Jonathan Swift
Edited by Valerie Rumbold, University of Birmingham

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: September 2021
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9781139016360
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780521843263

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Texts, English Literature 1700-1830
Collection:: The Works of Jonathan Swift
Series:: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (2)

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Swift's parodies are among his most fascinating works, but perhaps require most explication for the modern reader. Valerie Rumbold brings a new depth and detail to the editing of Swift's Bickerstaff papers, 'Polite Conversation', 'Directions to Servants' and other works on language and conduct. Highlights include a fresh investigation of the political and print contexts of the Bickerstaff papers, full commentaries on such smaller works as 'A Modest Defence of Punning' and 'On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland', identification and explanation of many additional sayings in 'Polite Conversation', and a detailed contextualisation of 'Directions to Servants' in contemporary domestic theory and practice. A substantial thematic Introduction is supplemented by an individual headnote and full annotation to each work. The Textual Introduction explores the publishing strategies adopted by Swift and his booksellers, and a separate Textual Account of each work presents and discusses changes in the texts over time.

'A mighty contribution to Swift studies.'

Source: Times Literary Supplement

'Valerie Rumbold as editor has done an assiduous and thorough job, well up to the high standards set by this series so far … this volume is, in its editorial construction and execution, a wonderful resource for scholars which will remain the standard edition for the foreseeable future.'

Robert J. Mayhew Source: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

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