Jonathan Swift

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Standard Name: Swift, Jonathan

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Intertextuality and Influence Leonora Carrington
The Debutante is set in an unnamed city on 1 May 1934. Its title character is an unnamed young woman who narrates in the first person and begins her narrative by announcing: When I was...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Gore
The title-page quotes the passage in Swift 's Gulliver's Travels where the King of Brobdingnag hears from Gulliver about English politics and marvels that human grandeur can be mimicked by such contemptible insects.
Gore, Catherine. The Hamiltons; or, Official Life in 1830. R. Bentley.
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The...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Gore
Any relation to Jonathan Swift 's A Tale of a Tub is indirect and inexplicit. The tub in this case is the working tool of Jeannette, stocking-mender, launderer, and cousin of du Barry (who herself...
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Caroline Lamb
The title-page of volume one of Graham Hamilton quotes Burns ; the second quotes Swift denouncing scandal. Though quieter, this novel again displays splendid satirical energy. It contains only one lyric (written by Nathan for...
Intertextuality and Influence Angela Carter
Lorna Sage noted that South America is an apt setting for this novel, since the essays and stories of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges show a similar blending of the fantastical and the documentary (...
Intertextuality and Influence Constantia Grierson
Grierson wrote this for print, to celebrate her friendship with Barber, and to predict the latter's success. The version printed in the volume shows very careful revision since Grierson's draft copy, with a new, dignified...
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Her own title makes her own poem an answer to one of Swift 's most notorious productions. In a brilliant pastiche of his own stylistic habits and his scatological gusto, Montagu represents him as an...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Elstob
Begun in order to help the work of a female student, this work reiterates more strongly EE 's plea for opening the arena of scholarship to women. For examples of poetic practice she turns to...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Elstob
Elstob probably succeeded in modifying Swift 's views: he later adopted some of hers.
Elstob, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities, edited by Charles Peake, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, p. i - v.
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Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of this publication.
Hughes, Shaun F. D. “The Anglo-Saxon Grammars of George Hickes and Elizabeth Elstob”. Anglo-Saxon Scholarship, the First Three Centuries, edited by Carl T. Berkhout and Milton McC. Gatch, G. K. Hall, pp. 119-47.
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Leisure and Society Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
She did not forget her literary plans and ambitions. She had already, in her teens, subscribed to the new and influential magazine Anthologia Hibernica. Now, helping to clear out a house in Dublin which...
Literary responses Jane Collier
The Monthly Review was moderately laudatory about the Art of Tormenting; it picked up on the relationship to Swift .
Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
8 (1753): 274
JC 's commonplace-book commented wryly on a man who declared that...
Literary responses Mary Astell
MA was attacked in Tatler number 32, ostensibly for A Serious Proposal, by either Swift or Steele .
Steele, Sir Richard, and Donald F. Bond, editors. The Tatler. Vol. 3 vols., Clarendon Press.
1:238-41
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press.
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Literary responses Jeanette Winterson
This novel received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
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Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press.
Reviewers in Cosmopolitan, the London Review of Books, The Times, the Financial Times...
Literary responses Frances Burney
Evelina was an instantaneous success. While FB 's identity was still unknown she repeatedly listened to praise of herself, uttered in ignorance that she had any concern in it. Samuel Johnson (like friends of Swift
Literary responses Delarivier Manley
These pamphlets printed in October were praised by Swift . Apparently, though, they gave rise to the attack on a Club of She-Romps in The Spectator for 8 November 1711.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon.
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These notional women are...

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