斯威夫特作品选-Writings of Jonathan Swift

分类: 图书,进口原版书,文学 Literature,
作者: Jonathan Swift 著
出 版 社: 华文出版社
出版时间: 1973-12-1字数:版次: 1页数: 714印刷时间: 1973/08/01开本:印次:纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780393094152包装: 平装内容简介
This volume contains the complete and definitive texts of virtually all of Swift's major works, as well as a generous selection ofhis poetry and other writings. Included are Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a T~b, The BatteI of the Book~, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation qf the Spirit, numerous essays and other prose pieces, and poems, among them several that are rarely reprinted. All of the texts are scrupulously edited and annotated.
A wide range of background materials is presented, including correspondence between Swift and members of his circle and observations by his contemporaries. The critical essays offer evaluations by Norman O. Brown, Samuel Holt Monk, Allan loom, Nigel Dennis, Edward W. Rosenheim, Jr,, A. E. Dyson, W~itliam Frost, C. J. Rawson, Kathleen Williams, Martin Price, Robert M. Adams, and Jay Arnold Levine. An annotated bibliography guides the reader to important works for further study.
TEIE EDITORS: ROBERT A. GREENBERG was Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. from New York University and taught at Comell and New York Universit He was the co-author of Robert Frost: An Introduction and Modern Essays: A Rhetorical Approach, and numerous scholarly and critical arti cles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century subjects. WILLIAM B. PIPER is professor emeritus of English at Rice University. He received his Ph.D. t:rom the University of Wisconsin and has taught at Cornell University, the University of Louisville, and Western Reserve University.
He has published Laurence Sterne, The Heroic Couplet, The Literatmv of Common Sense, and many scholarly articles. ABOUT TIlE SERIES: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authori tative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations-from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory-as well as a bibliography and, in most cases, a chronology of the author's life and work.
目录
Preface
The Text of Gulliver's Travels (1726)
The Texts of A Tale of a Tub and Other Prose
A Tale of a Tub The Battel of the Books
A Discourse Concerning (1697-1710)
the Mechanical Operation of
the Spirit, a Fragment
A Meditation upon a Broom-stick (1703-10)
A Tritical Essay (1707-11)
Predictions for the Year 1708
The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions (1708)
A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. (1709)
From Journal to Stella (1710)
The Tatler, No. CCXXX (1710)
The Examiner, No. 14 (1710)
The Tatler, No. 5 (1711)
An Argument against Abolishing Christianity (1708-11)
A Letter to a Young Gentleman (1720)
A Letter to the Tradesmen, Shop-Keepers, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland (1724)
A Short View of the State of Ireland (1728)
A Modest Proposal (1729)
The Texts of the Poems
Baucis and Philemon (17o6-09)
A Description of the Morning (1709)
A Description of a City Shower (1710)
Phillis, or, the Progress of Love (1719)
The Progress of Beauty (1719-20)
On Stella's Birth-day, 1719
The Progress of Poetry (172o)
Stella's Birth-day, x 1721
A1Satirical Elegy on the Death of a late Famous General (1722)
The Furniture of a Woman's Mind (1727)
Stella's Birth-day, 17z7
A Pastoral Dialogue (1729)
The Lady's Dressing Room (1730)
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed (1731)
Strephon and Chloe (1731)
Cassinus and Peter (1731)
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. (1731-32)
The Beasts' Confession to the Priest (1732)
On Poetry: A Rapsody (1733)
The Day of Judgement (1732-33)
Backgrounds
Correspondence
Swift to Charles Ford (Jan. 19, 1724; Aug. 14, 1725)
Swift to the Rev. Thomas Sheridan (Sept. 11, 1725)
Swift to Alexander Pope (Sept. 29, 1725)
Swift to Alexander Pope (Nov. 26, 1725)
John Arbuthnot to Swift (Nov. 5, 1726)
Alexander Pope to Swift (Nov. 16, 1726)
John Gay to Swift (Nov. 17, 1726)
Swift to Mrs. Howard (Nov. 27, 1726)
Swift to Alexander Pope (Nov. 27, 1726)
Swift to L'Abbs des Fontaines (July, 1727)
William WottonObservations upon the Tale of a Tub
Edmund CurllSome Annotations and Explanatory Notes upon the Tale of a Tub
Thomas Sheridan[The Composition of "A Meditation upon a Broomstick"]
Alexander Pope[Swift's Odd Blunt Way]
Alexander PopeMary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver
Laetitia Pilkington[Swift's Conduct as a Host]
Criticism
Norman O. BrownThe Excremental Vision
Samuel Holt MonkThe Pride of Lemuel Gulliver
Allan BloomAn Outline of Gulliver's Travels
Nigel DennisSwift and Defoe
Edward W. Rosenheim, Jr.The Satiric Fiction
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