A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
Part of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift
- Real Author: Jonathan Swift
- Editor: Marcus Walsh, University of Liverpool
- Date Published: August 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009200967
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This volume contains the three works which together make up Jonathan Swift's early satiric and intellectual masterpiece, A Tale of a Tub: the Tale itself, The Battel of the Books, and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. Incorporating much new knowledge, this 2010 edition provides the first full scholarly treatment of this important work for fifty years. The introduction discusses publication, composition, and authorship; sources, analogues and generic models; reception; and religious, scientific and literary contexts (including the ancients and moderns controversy). Detailed explanatory notes address many previously unexplained issues in this famously rich and difficult work. Texts have been fully collated and edited according to modern principles and are accompanied with a textual introduction and full textual apparatus. Illustrations include title pages, the eight engravings from the fifth edition, and original designs for these engravings. Extensive associated contemporary materials, including Edmund Curll's Key and William Wotton's Observations, are provided.
Read more- A fully annotated scholarly edition of A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, and other works
- Includes full textual apparatus of variants between early editions
- Includes the original plates from the 1710 edition, with the original designs for the engravings
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'Some of the most important publishing events take place quietly … one of the landmark publications for me was the appearance of … A Tale of a Tub and Other Works … It's heartening to know, not just that one of our greatest writers is finally being given the editorial treatment he deserves, but that such a quixotically ambitious publishing series can still be contemplated in the digital age.' Jonathan Coe, The Guardian
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- Date Published: August 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009200967
- length: 684 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 35 mm
- weight: 0.904kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
General editors' preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction
A Tale of a Tub
The Battel of the Books
A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit
Swift's editorial matter for Temple's posthumous publications: Letters written by Sir W. Temple (1700)
Miscellanea. The Third Part (1701)
Letters to the King (1703)
Memoirs. Part III. (1709)
Appendices: A. Letters between Swift and Benjamin Tooke, 29 June and 10 July 1710
B. William Wotton, 'Observations upon the Tale of a Tub'
C. Edmund Curll's Complete Key to the Tale of a Tub
D. Materials from Miscellaneous Works (1720)
E. Swift's Moor Park reading list
Textual introduction and apparatus
Explanatory notes
Bibliography
Index.
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