| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 378 pages). |
| Series |
Athlone critical traditions series |
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Athlone critical traditions series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-364) and index. |
| Contents |
Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Timeline: European Reception of Jonathan Swift; Introduction; 1 Swift's First Voyages to Europe: His Impact on Eighteenth-Century France; 2 The Italian Reception of Swift; 3 Swift's Horses in the Land of the Caballeros; 4 A Lusitanian Dish: Swift to Portuguese Taste; 5 The Dean's Voyages into Germany; 6 Swiftian Presence in Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway, Sweden; 7 No Swift beyond Gulliver: Notes on the Polish Reception. |
| Summary |
Jonathan Swift has had a profound impact on almost all the national literatures of Continental Europe. The celebrated author of acknowledged masterpieces like A Tale of a Tub (1704), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729), the Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, was courted by innumerable translators, adaptors, and retellers, admired and challenged by shoals of critics, and creatively imitated by both novelists and playwrights, not only in Central Europe (Germany and Switzerland) but also in its northern (Denmark and Sweden) and southern (Italy, Spain, and Portugal) outposts, as wel. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Appreciation -- Europe.
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Translations -- History and criticism.
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Influence.
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Swift, Jonathan.
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European literature -- Irish influences.
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European literature.
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Swift, Jonathan.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Rezeption.
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Europa.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte
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| Added Author |
Real, Hermann Josef.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe. London ; New York : Thoemmes Continuum, 2005 (DLC) 2005041747 |
| ISBN |
9781847143129 (electronic bk.) |
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1847143121 (electronic bk.) |
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