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Swift in Print
Published Texts in Dublin and London, 1691-1765

Author: Valerie Rumbold, University of Birmingham

Valerie Rumbold

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Date Published: July 2020
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108839440

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Presenting a fresh perspective on one of the most celebrated print canons in literary history, Valerie Rumbold explores the expressive force of print context, format, typography, ornament and paratext encountered by early readers of Jonathan Swift. By focusing on the books, pamphlets and single sheets in which the Dublin and London book trades published his work, this revealing whole-career analysis, based on a chronology of publication that often lagged years behind dates of composition, examines first editions and significant reprints throughout Swift's lifetime, and posthumous first editions and collections in the twenty years after his death. Drawing on this material evidence, Rumbold reframes Swift's publishing career as a late expression of an early modern formation in which publishing was primarily an adjunct to public service. In an age of digital reading, this timely study invites a new engagement with the printed texts of Swift.
- Traces the development of the books, pamphlets and single sheets in which Swift's works were published, connecting and comparing texts produced in Dublin and London, and featuring original illustrations of the printed items discussed
- Gives a clear view of which works were actually available in print to readers at different stages of Swift's career, and in what material and textual forms
- Reinterprets Swift's publishing career as a late expression of an early modern formation in which publishing was primarily an adjunct to public service, in contrast to the professional authorship modelled by his younger friend Alexander Pope
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Product details
- Date Published: July 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108839440
- length: 340 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 159 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.66kg
- contains: 14 b/w illus. 1 table
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Beginnings:
1. First Impressions: Dublin and London to 1699
Part II. London:
2. The Shock of the Normal: From Temple to the Tale (1693–1705)
3. Material Voices: the Bickerstaff Effect (1705–1710)
4. Politics and Permanence: Miscellanies, Politics and a Proposal Declined (1710–1714)
Part III. Dublin:
5. The Irish Patriot in Print (1720–1725)
6. Delegating in London, Recouping in Dublin: Travels, Miscellanies, the Intelligencer and A Modest Proposal (1726–1729)
7. The Works of J. S, D. D, D. S. P. D. (1731–1735)
Part IV. Into the Future:
8. Ending and Going on (1736–1765).
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Valerie Rumbold, University of Birmingham
Valerie Rumbold is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is author of Women's Place in Pope's World (1989) and has edited Pope's Dunciads (1999, 2007) and Swift's Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises (2013). She is a General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift and of the Oxford Edition of the Writings of Alexander Pope.
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Valerie Rumbold