Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 666 g
Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 666 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-812670-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford
In 1728-9, Jonathan Swift and his friend Thomas Sheridan anonymously published the Intelligencer. This Dublin periodical offered trenchant and often witty commentary on the Irish social and political scene in the year before A Modest Proposal. The frequently anthologized review of The Beggar's Opera (no. 3) is not only the best contemporary criticism of it but also Swift's central pronouncement on satire. Several essays lash important
enemies, anger being always a great creative stimulus to both Swift and Sheridan.
This is the first collected edition of the Intelligencer since 1730. It is based on the rare original Dublin pamphlets, each known copy of which has been collated. Full commentary and appendices draw upon contemporary pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, and manuscripts to site the Intelligencer papers in the personal, social, and political controversies in which they are engaged. There is also a fresh bibliographical analysis of the Intelligencer's textual
transmission.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Illustrations; Abbreviations and short titles; General introduction; Characteristics and emphases; Publication and reception; Sheridan's life; Sheridan the writer; Swift, Sheridan, and the Intelligencer; Dates of the Intelligencer; A note on the annotation; Textual introduction; The Intelligencer, Nos. 1-20; Appendices: A. Archbishop King on the taxation of Ireland; B. Unpublished contemporary comment; C. Duncombe's essay on The
Beggars Opera; D. Commentary in Mist's and Fog's; E. A True Character and On Paddy's Character; F. Building in Dublin c.1728; G. Published replies to No.16; H. The spurious No. 20; I. The Bowyer-Davis preface; J. Intended papers: Swift's manuscript hints; K. To the Author of Those Intelligencers Printed at Dublin; L.
Unauthorized titles of the Intelligencers; Textual notes; Index
