San Antonio College Library

"Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is an inexhaustibly intriguing figure in the literary and political history of England and Ireland. Best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, he was an ordained clergyman whose enemies thought he did not believe in God. He became a legendary dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin whose ambition for church preferment in England was perpetually frustrated. For four short, intoxicating years he was the intimate of...

"Jonathan Swift is one of literature's great satirists. Best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, Swift also wrote numerous essays, pamphlets, and poems that addressed the political and social conditions of his time and are still studied and enjoyed by modern readers. Critical Companion to Jonathan Swift contains extensive analyses of Swift's works. This accessible volume also profiles the characters he created, significant members of his family...

"Ann Cline Kelly's book breaks the mold of Swift studies. Twentieth-century scholars have tended to assess Jonathan Swift as a pillar of the eighteenth-century "republic of letters," a conservative, even reactionary voice upholding classical values against the welling tide of popularization in literature. She argues instead that Swift, recognizing the power of the popular press to transform cultural realities, turned his back on the elite to write...