...-eighteenth-century stage works, all of which have a starting point in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, in order to consider the term ‘adaptation’ and ways in which it is applied in contemporary Adaptation Studies. It suggests that the appropriation of narrative elements from a literary precursor...

... instances of retrospective diagnosis, the discussion about a case reveals more about the varying status of confirming evidence, rather than the debated nosological category. This paper considers the final illness of the satirical writer Jonathan Swift (1667–1745). For over 250 years, the diagnosis...

...While examples of conventional romance fiction continued during this decade, fiction also became the vehicle for topical satire, as seen in Jonathan Swift’s Tale of a Tub and Delarivier Manley’s New Atalantis. Publishers were offering collections of novels...

... White also captured the imagination of English novelists, from Margaret Cavendish to Jonathan Swift to Jane Austen. Bourges Jacques de Relation du voyage de Monseigneur l’Evêque de Beryte Philosophical Transactions Royal Society Royal Society Dampier William Defoe Daniel Evelyn John Churchill...

...This chapter addresses Jonathan Swift's approach to the character of the Enthusiast. For Swift, as for Mary Astell, enthusiasm was not merely a malady associated with sectarian fanaticism. It was further and more deeply associated with the Wits of the world and their favored philosophy: Epicurean...

... the Earth Gilbert Enlightenment reason imaginary voyage science fiction Jonathan Swift Voltaire Gulliver’s Travels “Micromégas” One commonsense way of distinguishing science fiction from fantasy might be to connect the former specifically to discourses of “science” as we now understand...

... Hervey John Baron Finch Anne Grub Street Johnson Samuel Pope Alexander Dryden John Dennis John Gildon Charles Hill Aaron Newton Isaac Sir Addison Joseph Burney Frances Fielding Henry satire social difference Jonathan Swift cognitive studies sympathy riddles periphrasis community...

... Arbuthnot John Fielding Henry Gay John Juvenal Decimus Junius Juvenalis Whitehead Paul George III Hogarth William Pindar Peter John Walcott Wilkes John Woodfall Henry Fox Charles James Pitt William the younger satire law seditious libel licensing Jonathan Swift anonymity innuendo Henry...

...While John Locke’s impact on Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, an eighteenth-century satire, is a well-worn topic of scholarly discussion, Gulliver as the butt of a satire concerning an important aspect of Lockean epistemology has not been considered. In the 1690 Essay...

...Late seventeenth-century natural philosophers inherited the conjunction of politics and science at the core of Francis Bacon’s experimental project. Thomas Sprat’s The History of the Royal Society, Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels use the conventions...

... of Oxford secretary of state Tindal Matthew Horace Stephen James Fitzjames Jonathan Swift parrhesia censorship John Milton US Constitution Thomas Hobbes ‘Strenuum pro virili libertatis vindicem.’ Swift so arranged it that the very last of his many acts of self-representation brought him before...

...This chapter describes the physical space and imaginative significance of the library in Jonathan Swift’s ‘Battel of the Books’ and relates it to the anthology of improving literature published by Richard Steele and George Berkeley in 1714 as The Ladies Library. It considers...

...This chapter shows that Jonathan Swift remained profoundly committed to safeguarding religion's place in the social and political institutions of eighteenth-century England. In Swift's various writings on religion, fictional and nonfictional, one can see the full bloom for the English Enlightenment...

... as adopted Defoe’s distinctive fictional memoir, Haywood’s equally modern amatory sublime. So did Jonathan Swift when he parodied Robinson Crusoe’s strategies in Gulliver’s Travels, an anonymous narrative that matched its commercial triumph. Swift hastened the vogue’s end...

... Paltock Robert novel satire war Jonathan Swift Henry Fielding Laurence Sterne Tobias Smollett Robert Paltock Frances Burney Maria Edgeworth Gulliver’s Travels is a kissing cousin of the eighteenth-century novel. In The Progress of Romance (1785), Clara...

... childhood, and her removal to Ireland, as well as about the nature of her relationship with Jonathan Swift.” What little is known of the woman who was Swift's particular friend in Ireland for some 27 years comes primarily from Swift himself. Of the people who knew Stella personally, the only other writer...

... compositions would be widely talked about and that women as well as men would be keen to secure copies. It examines the interactions of the two media in the work of a single writer, Jonathan Swift, who, more than any other, was to recreate the political values of the scribally published text within...

... Jonathan Swift James Thomson William Wordsworth He embraced the entire world with his soul, both East and West. (Vera Panova, A Writer's Notes, 1972) The idea that his writings would be his ‘monument’ was not something that Pushkin regarded merely as a soothing fantasy in the midst...

... Rome Roman Empire Joseph Addison death John Dryden Samuel Johnson John Milton William Shakespeare Laurence Sterne Jonathan Swift Between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Gothic developed into three main strands: a political theory central to Whig interests, a burgeoning interest...