RAWSON

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SATIRE AND THE NOVEL.

1. John Lawlor, Radical Satire and the Realistic Novel.

TWO VIEWS OF PERSONAE.

2. Claude Rawson, Order and Cruelty.
3. Robert C. Elliott, Swift’s Satire: Rules of the Game.

ANCIENTS AND MODERNS: A TALE OF A TUB.

4. Michael Seidel, Fathers and Sons: Swift’s A Tale of a Tub.
5. Marcus Walsh, Text, “Text” , and Swift’s A Tale of a Tub.
6. John F. Tinkler, The Splitting of Humanism: Bentley, Swift, and the English Battle of the Books.

POEMS.

7. Cristine Rees, Gay, Swift, and the Nymphs of Drury- Lane.
8. Richard Feingold, Swift as a Lyricist: The Poems to Stella and His Career in Satire.
9. Penelope Wilson, Feminism and the Augustans: Some Readings and Problems.

POLITICS.

10. Ian Higgins, Swift’s Politics: A Preface to Gulliver’s Travels.

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS.

11. Michael McKeon, Parables of the Younger Son: Swift and the Containment of Desire.
12. Douglas Lane Patey, Swift’s Satire on “Science” and the Structure of Gulliver’s Travels.
13. Jenny Mezciems, The Unity of Swift’s “Voyage to Laputa” : Structure as Meaning in Utopian Fiction.
14. A.D. Nuttall, Gulliver Among the Horses.

IRELAND.

15. Oliver W. Ferguson, The Last Proposals.
Chronology of Important Dates.
Notes on Contributors.
Bibliography.

A collection of critical essays reflecting both older and newer perspectives. Contains an introduction by the editor (a respected scholar in the field), a chronology of the author’s life, and an annotated bibliography.