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Chapter 3 - Material Voices

The Bickerstaff Effect (1705–1710)

from Part II - London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2020

Valerie Rumbold
Valerie Rumbold
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University of Birmingham
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The years up to 1710 were intensely productive for Swift in print. The Bickerstaff affair demonstrated the power of print to consolidate and further develop the techniques of anonymity on which it had relied to date, reaching a climax in the Bickerstaff hoax of 1708–9, and presenting in 1710 the elaborated but still technically anonymous fifth edition of the Tale.

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Swift in Print
Published Texts in Dublin and London, 1691-1765
 , pp. 66 - 101
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Material Voices
  • Valerie Rumbold, University of Birmingham
  • Book: Swift in Print
  • Online publication: 14 May 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878036.004
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  • Material Voices
  • Valerie Rumbold, University of Birmingham
  • Book: Swift in Print
  • Online publication: 14 May 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878036.004
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  • Material Voices
  • Valerie Rumbold, University of Birmingham
  • Book: Swift in Print
  • Online publication: 14 May 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878036.004
Available formats
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