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First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature. Although the modern term 'Grub Street' has declined into vague metaphor, for the Augustan satirists it embodied not only an actual place but an emphatic lifestyle. Pat Rogers shows that the major satirists - Pope, Swift and Fielding - built a potent fiction surrounding the real circumstances in...
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"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...
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"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...
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