Swift's parody

Resource Information

The work Swift's parody represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Swift's parody

Statement of responsibility

Robert Phiddian

Creator

• Phiddian, Robert

Subject

• Parodies -- History and criticism
• Parody
• Rhetoric -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Technique
• England

Language

eng

Summary

Jonathan Swift's prose has been discussed extensively as satire, but its major structural element, parody, has not received the attention it deserves. Focusing mainly on works before 1714, and especially on A Tale of a Tub, this study explores Swift's writing primarily as parody. Robert Phiddian follows the constructions and deconstructions of textual authority through the texts on cultural-historical, biographical, and literary-theoretical levels. The historical interest lies in the occasions of the parodies: in their relations with the texts and discourses which they quote and distort, and in the way this process reflects on the generation of cultural authority in late-Stuart England. The biographical interest lies in a new way of viewing Swift's early career as that of a potentially Whiggish intellectual. The theoretical and interpretative interest lies in tracing the play of language and irony through parody

Member of

• Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature
• Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought, 26
• Online access with JISC subscription agreement: ACLS Humanities E-Books

Cataloging source

MiU

Index

index present

LC call number

PR3728.P3

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• theses
• bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought

Series volume

26