Critical Companion to Jonathan Swift: A Literary Reference to His Life and Works (repost)
Critical Companion to Jonathan Swift: A Literary Reference to His Life and Works
Facts on File | 2006 | ISBN: 0816050937 | Pages: 474 | PDF | 5.20 MB
Facts on File | 2006 | ISBN: 0816050937 | Pages: 474 | PDF | 5.20 MB
Best known as the author of "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift is one of literature's great satirists. Born and educated in Ireland, Swift became a politician and clergyman in England, where he wrote essays, pamphlets, poems, and fiction that addressed the political issues and social conditions of his time. In "Gulliver's Travels", he introduced the allegorical settings of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the island of the Houyhnhnms, as well as the term "Yahoos," in a playful but dark satirical reflection on mankind.