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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 September 2009
      09 November 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511519086
      9780521474375
      9780521024778
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519086
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.535kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.369kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, British History after 1450, History, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought (26)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, British History after 1450, History, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought (26)
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    Jonathan Swift's prose has been discussed extensively as satire, but its major structural element, parody, has not received the attention it deserves. Focusing mainly on works before 1714, and especially on A Tale of a Tub, this study explores Swift's writing primarily as parody. Robert Phiddian follows the constructions and deconstructions of textual authority through the texts on cultural-historical, biographical, and literary-theoretical levels. The historical interest lies in the occasions of the parodies: in their relations with the texts and discourses which they quote and distort, and in the way this process reflects on the generation of cultural authority in late Stuart England. The biographical interest lies in a new way of viewing Swift's early career as a potentially Whiggish intellectual. The theoretical and interpretative interest lies in tracing the play of language and irony through parody.

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    ‘Robert Phiddian’s ferociously intelligent book … is based on a strenuous, witty, and good-tempered engagement with a very wide range not only of primary but also of secondary writings.’

    Source: The Review of English Studies

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