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The reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe /
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 i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Thoemmes Continuum,
2005.
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| Colección: | Athlone critical traditions series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxii, 378 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-364) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847143129 1847143121 6611298940 9786611298944 1281298948 9781281298942 |