JONATHAN SWIFT
Portrait of Jonathan Swift by Charles Jervas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dates: 1667-1745
Nationality: Irish
Literary Periods:
Augustan Period, 1700-1745
Eighteenth Century, 1700-1799
Neoclassical Period, 1660-1785
Literary Movements:
Neoclassicism
BIOGRAPHY
SPACE
Gulliver in Lilliput by Deutsches Spielzeugmuseum, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
REFERENCE & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Scribner Writers Series [Database]
Essays on the life and works of Jonathan Swift, complete works and suggested reading bibliographies
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- Literature Resource CenterIncludes entries from Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Twayne's Authors Series, and Scribner Writers Series
- Literature Online (LION)Biographical overview, complete bibliography, journal articles, audio & video recordings, and recommended Web sites
RESEARCH & CRITICISM
Books, essays, and journal articles indexed in MLA International Bibliography 
[Database]
MLA International Bibliography is the definitive literary research database, indexing the most authoritative Swift scholarship published in books and academic journals. MLA indexes and links to the entire JSTOR literary research collection as well as linking to many other full-text providers and the Colby College Libraries catalog. If you discover books or articles through MLA that are not available at Colby or through our lending partners, please request these items using your ILLiad Account.
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The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift (2003) by
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this 2003 volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and scholars. The thirteen essays explore crucial dimensions of Swift's life and works. As well as ensuring a broad coverage of Swift's writing - including early and later works as well as the better known and the lesser known - the Companion also offers a way into current critical and theoretical issues surrounding the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift's vexed relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland; and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicised age. The Companion offers a lucid introduction to these and other issues, and raises questions about Swift and his world. The volume features a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading.
Call Number: Miller PR3727 .C36 2003ISBN: 0521002834
Factions' Fiction (1991) by
An understanding of the linguistic, political, and moral ramifications of Private Spirit (the parochialism and partiality typical of clubs, parties, and cabals) provides insights into the logic behind Swiftian polemic and satire. Swiftian satire, an essentially private joke offering exclusive satisfaction to an elite fraternity of insiders, is shown to be a creative rhetorical adaption of private spirit.
Call Number: Colby PR3728.S2 E37 1991ISBN: 0874133912
Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin (1752) by Call Number: Miller Special Collection ROBSN PR3726 .C7 1752a
PRIMARY SOURCES: TEXTS
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Archival Collections/Papers
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A modest proposal by Call Number: Miller Special Collections ROBSN FOLIO PR3724 .M6 1969
