Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 1/21/2016
EAN 9781316600955, ISBN10: 1316600955
Paperback, 308 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than those of any other single author, illustrate the range of developments that transformed print culture during the early Enlightenment. Swift was a prolific author and a frequent visitor at the printing house, and he wrote as critic and satirist about the nature of text. The shifting moods of irony, complicity and indignation that characterise his dealings with the book trade add a layer of complexity to the bibliographic record of his published works. The essays collected here offer the first comprehensive, integrated survey of that record. They shed new light on the politics of the eighteenth-century book trade, on Swift's innovations as a maker of books, on the habits and opinions revealed by his commentary on printed texts and on the re-shaping of the Swiftian book after his death.
Introduction Paddy Bullard and James McLaverty
Part I. Swift's Books and their Environment
1. Swift as a manuscript poet Stephen Karian
2. Leaving the printer to his liberty
Swift and the London book trade, 1701–14 Ian Gadd
3. What Swift did in libraries Paddy Bullard
Part II. Some Species of Swiftian Book
4. The uses of the miscellany
Swift, Curll, and piracy Pat Rogers
5. Swift's Tale of a Tub and the mock book Marcus Walsh
6. Epistolary forms
published correspondence, letter-journals and books Abigail Williams
7. Exploring the bibliographical limits of Gulliver's Travels Shef Rogers
8. George Faulkner and Swift's collected works James McLaverty
Part III. Swift's Books in their Broader Context
9. Censorship, libel and self-censorship Ian Higgins
10. Swift's texts between Dublin and London Adam Rounce
11. Publishing posthumous Swift
Dean Swift to Walter Scott Daniel Cook
12. The mock-edition revisited
Swift to Mailer Claude Rawson.