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The AmbassadorsISBN 0048000264 (0-04-800026-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Basic Writings of Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan Swift, Claude RawsonISBN 0375757953 (0-375-75795-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Basic Writings of Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings'Book summary:This edition of Jonathan Swifts basic works contains the authoritative texts of all his most important prose writings as well as many shorter pieces, poems, and letter extracts. Included are Gullivers Travels, Swifts devastating picture of human nature and human foibles; A Tale of a Tub, his scathing attack on the intellectual culture and religious excesses of his time; The Battel of the Books, his defense of the classical tradition; and the unforgettable Modest Proposal, in which he proposes that the Irish, in order to avoid starvation, eat their children. [via]
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Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Jonathan Swift, Claude RawsonISBN 0048000361 (0-04-800036-1)
Hardcover, Routledge
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The Canterbury Talesby Derek Pearsall, Claude RawsonISBN 0415094445 (0-415-09444-5)
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Classical Criticismby George Alexander Kennedy, H. B. Nisbet, Claude RawsonISBN 0521300061 (0-521-30006-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Don Quixoteby George Alexander Kennedy, H. B. Nisbet, Claude RawsonISBN 0048000094 (0-04-800009-4)
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God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945by Claude RawsonISBN 0198184255 (0-19-818425-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945'Book summary:We are obsessed with "barbarians." They are the "not us," who don't speak our language, or "any language," whom we despise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or admiration, and an intense sexual interest; whose innocence or vigor we aspire to, and who have an extraordinary influence on the comportment, and even modes of dress, of our civilized metropolitan lives; whom we often outdo in the barbarism we impute to them; and whose suspected resemblance to us haunts our introspections and imaginings. This book looks afresh at how we have confronted the idea of "barbarism," in ourselves and others, from the conquest of the Americas to the Nazi Holocaust, through the voices of many writers, including Montaigne, Swift and Shaw. [via]
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Gulliver and the Gentle Reader: Studies in Swift and Our Timeby Claude RawsonISBN 0391037102 (0-391-03710-2)
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Gulliver's Travelsby Claude Rawson , Jonathan Swift, Ian HigginsISBN 0192805347 (0-19-280534-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. An extraordinarily skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift's alter ego plays tricks on us, and our gullibility uncovers one of the world's most disturbing satires of the human condition.
The fullest, most up-to-date paperback of Gulliver's Travels currently available, this new edition contains an astute analysis of the nature of Swift's satire. It includes the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions and whose subtle changes contribute to the reader's uncertainty about the veracity of the author. A new introduction by Claude Rawson draws on the latest scholarship and considers Swift's role-playing and the relationship of the author to Gulliver. [via]More editions of Gulliver's Travels:
Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal Under Stress: "Nature's Dance of Death" and Other Studiesby Claude RawsonISBN 0391037110 (0-391-03711-0)
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Jonathan Swift: A Collection of Critical Essaysby Claude RawsonISBN 0130912999 (0-13-091299-9)
Softcover, Pearson P T R
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The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild, the Greatby Henry Fielding, Hugh Amory, Linda Bree, Claude RawsonISBN 0192804081 (0-19-280408-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild, the Great'Book summary:The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled "Thieftaker General", controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted attention; after his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and satirists made connections between his success and the triumph of corruption in high places. Fielding built on these narratives to produce one of the greatest sustained satires in the English language. Published in 1743, at a time when the modern novel had yet to establish itself as a fixed literary form, Jonathan Wild is at the same time a brilliant black comedy, an incisive political satire, and a profoundly serious exploration of human "greatness" and "goodness", as relevant today as it ever was. [via]
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Martin Chuzzlewitby Henry Fielding, Hugh Amory, Linda Bree, Claude RawsonISBN 0048000280 (0-04-800028-0)
Hardcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Martin Chuzzlewit'Book summary:Although enjoyed my many as a masterpiece of Dickens comic writing, Martin Chuzzlewit has long been underrated by professional critics. This volume redresses the balance by devoting its attention to a full critical discussion of the novel and by including a full survey of the critical positions held in the past.
As well as discussing the themes of selfishness and hypocrisy, the history of the text is also explored, as is the complex relationship between Dickens and the United States which played a great part in the development of the novel and exerted considerable influence on it early reception.
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Claude Rawson , Jane Austen, John DavieISBN 0192833685 (0-19-283368-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon'Book summary:Northanger Abbey is the earliest of Jane Austen's great comedies of female enlightenment and combines literary burlesque - making fun of the excesses of the Gothic novel - with larger moral, philosophical, and social issues: the folly of letting literature get in the way of life, the inexcusability of not thinking for oneself, and the painful difficulties (especially for women) involved in growing up. Lady Susan and The Watsons are early compositions that reflect many of the qualities of Northanger Abbey. The first is an epistolary novel centring on the intrigues of the villainous Lady Susan; the second is an unfinished example of Jane Austen's most characteristic form - a story where the heroine is outstanding for her sense and goodness, virtues notably lacking in the other characters, who are here part of an altogether bleaker vision. Sanditon, too, is tragically incomplete, and it signals the achievement of a new depth and breadth of comic insight on the part of its author. [via]
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Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to Cowperby Claude RawsonISBN 0391037455 (0-391-03745-5)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Persuasionby Claude Rawson , Jane Austen, John N. Davie, John DavieISBN 0192833618 (0-19-283361-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:'All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'. Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimate and sober as Jane Austen unfolds a simple love-story. She described her heroine in a letter as 'almost too good for me': Anne Elliot's goodness is not of the cloying kind, but an unsentimental quality that, combined with stoicism and integrity, enables her to find happiness in love after seven years when it seemed she had for ever put an end to such a prospect. [via]
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Persuasionby Claude Rawson , Jane Austen, John N. Davie, John DavieISBN 0192827596 (0-19-282759-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she's still alone. But then the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea. As always, Austen's storytelling is so confident, you can't help but allow yourself to be taken on the enjoyable journey. [via]
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Pound's Cantosby Claude Rawson , Jane Austen, John N. Davie, John DavieISBN 0048110027 (0-04-811002-7)
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Rural Housing: Competition and Choiceby Claude Rawson , Jane Austen, John N. Davie, John DavieISBN 0043091059 (0-04-309105-9)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
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Satire and Sentiment 1660-1830: Stress Points in the English Augustan Traditionby Claude RawsonISBN 0300079168 (0-300-07916-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Satire and Sentiment 1660-1830: Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition'Book summary:Claude Rawson examines the evolution of satirical writing in the period 1660-1830. In a sequence of linked chapters, some new and others revised substantially from earlier articles, he focuses on English writers from Rochester to Austen, both within a contemporaneous European context and as part of a tradition deriving from classical and 16th-century Humanist predecessors (Homer, Virgil, Erasmus, Montaigne) and leading to later writers like Flaubert and Yeats. Within the period 1660-1830 satire moved from an unusually dominant position to a relatively modest one, softened by the cult of "sensibility" or "sentiment". The transition was connected with large social and cultural changes culminating in the French Revolution. Rawson's method is to concentrate on stress points, on evasions and internal contradictions, and on continuities and discontinuities with earlier and later periods and with literatures and modes of thought outside Britain. [via]
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A Tale of a Tubby Jonathan Swift, Claude Rawson , Frank H. EllisISBN 0140435786 (0-14-043578-6)
Softcover, Northwestern University Press
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