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A new ed. corr. and rev. by John Nichols. |
| Description |
1 online resource (425 pages). |
| Series |
Jonathan Swift anthology |
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Jonathan Swift anthology.
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BiblioBoard Core module.
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Volume IX |
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Original document: Book. |
| Contents |
v.1. Life of Doctor Swift [by Sheridan]--v.2. A tale of a tub. The battle of the books [and essays]--v.3. The Examiner [and political tracts]--v.4. History of Queen Anne.--v.5. Miscellaneous pieces.--v.6. Gulliver's travels.--v.7. Poems.--v.8. Poems, Polite convesation, etc.--v.9. Drapier's letters [etc.]--v.10. Sermons. Memoirs of Captain John Creichton.-v.11-15. Letters--v.16. Directions to servants [and miscellany]--v.17. History of John Bull. Essays. Poetry.--v.18-19. Letters. Index. |
| Summary |
The ninth book of a 19-volume set of Jonathan Swift's collected works, this text features some of the author's prose works, including A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture and Drapier's Letters. The collective name for a group of pamphlets written between 1724 and 1725, Swift's Drapier's Letters were published in hopes of arousing the public against Ireland's wish to privately mint copper coins, which the author believed to be of poor quality. While the work seems relatively docile in relation to other political pamphlets, Drapier's Letters contained pointed remarks about Britain and its no longer having financial and constitutional control over Ireland. The letters were publicly condemned by the Irish government (after being encouraged to do so by the British government), but the pamphlets were still popular among the people. Eventually, a nationwide boycott forced the copper coin venture to be abandoned. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Added Author |
Sheridan, Thomas, 1719-1788.
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Nichols, John, 1745-1826.
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