Swift at Moor Park: Problems in Biography and Criticism

A. C. Elias, Jr.

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1982

Swift at Moor Park

Problems in Biography and Criticism

A. C. Elias, Jr.

In the series Anniversary Collection

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512801873

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Drawing upon considerable new documentary evidence, Swift at Moor Park represents the most exhaustive study yet published about this formative period in Swift's literary career and challenges traditional assumptions and conclusions concerning those years.

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Elias, Jr. A. C. :

A. C. Elias, Jr., is a scholar based in Philadelphia.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
1. Swift as Secretary: The Downton Transcript and Swift's Translations from Temple's French Letters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Further Secretarial Duties: Swift, Thomas Swift, and Temple's Campaigns Against Dunton and DuCros Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
3. Swift’s References to Temple: Autobiographical Fragment, Prefaces to Late Temple Works, the Ode to the Hon^ble Sir William Temple and Other Early Verse, the Journal to Stella and Marginalia in Burnet's History, the Journal d'Estat de M’ T– , Inscriptions in Books Received from Temple Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
4. Moor Park and the Traditions of Swift Biography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
5. The Temple Element in the Satires: A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books in a Moor Park Context Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Appendices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 368
Keywords: Literature; Biography; Cultural Studies; Biography; Autobiography

eBook

Published: November 15, 2017
ISBN: 9781512801873