Swift and History

Ashley Marshall

earliest edition we have, 2015 Cambridge University Press, 2015

"Swift has been said to have little interest in history; his attempts to write it have been disparaged and his desire to become Historiographer Royal ridiculed. Ashley Marshall argues that history mattered enormously to Swift. He read a vast amount of history and uses historical examples copiously in his own works. This study traces Swift's classical and modern historiographical inheritance; analyses his unsuccessful...

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Swift and History edition · 2017 · University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations · 292 pages · 9781107499270
Swift and History edition · 2015 · Cambridge University Press · 9781316310939
Swift and History edition · 2015 · University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations · 294 pages · 9781107101760
Swift and History edition · 2015 · Cambridge University Press · 9781316182161

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