Jonathan Swift : a critical introduction /
By: Donoghue, Denis.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 1969, (2010)Description: viii, 235 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780521141352; 9780521141352:; 0521141354.Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Criticism and interpretation | English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
'One lash the more' -- Perspective -- Body, soul, spirit -- Words -- The lame beggar -- The sin of wit -- Appendixes. The authorship of "A tale of a tub" ; One of Swift's marginalia in "Baronius".
In this concise critical survey, Donoghue looks at Swift's whole output, and expresses a fresh sense of his literary character. In particular, he questions the widespread view that Swift is to be understood in terms of irony, persona or mask.