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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2021
      July 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511780219
      9780521828949
      9781009200967
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511780219
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.37kg, 681 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.02kg, 686 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Texts, History, English Literature 1700-1830, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Collection:
      The Works of Jonathan Swift
      Series:
      The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (1)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Texts, History, English Literature 1700-1830, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Collection:
    The Works of Jonathan Swift
    Series:
    The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (1)
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    This volume contains the three works which together make up Jonathan Swift's early satiric and intellectual masterpiece, A Tale of a Tub: the Tale itself, The Battel of the Books, and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. Incorporating much new knowledge, this 2010 edition provides the first full scholarly treatment of this important work for fifty years. The introduction discusses publication, composition, and authorship; sources, analogues and generic models; reception; and religious, scientific and literary contexts (including the ancients and moderns controversy). Detailed explanatory notes address many previously unexplained issues in this famously rich and difficult work. Texts have been fully collated and edited according to modern principles and are accompanied with a textual introduction and full textual apparatus. Illustrations include title pages, the eight engravings from the fifth edition, and original designs for these engravings. Extensive associated contemporary materials, including Edmund Curll's Key and William Wotton's Observations, are provided.

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    'Some of the most important publishing events take place quietly … one of the landmark publications for me was the appearance of … A Tale of a Tub and Other Works … It's heartening to know, not just that one of our greatest writers is finally being given the editorial treatment he deserves, but that such a quixotically ambitious publishing series can still be contemplated in the digital age.'

    Jonathan Coe Source: The Guardian

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