Jonathan Swift: Criticism (2)


Chronological Listing (Criticism 1) Alphabetical Listing (Criticism 2)
[Note: Not all of the titles listed under “Chronological” appear under “Alphabetical” - given that the latter is occasionally recompiled from the former. ]

See Bryan Fanning & Tom Garvin, ‘Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal (1729)’ in Books That Define Ireland (Sallins: Merrion 2014) - Chap. 4.

General Commentary [A-Z]
  • Adams, Robert M[artin], ‘Satiric Incongruity and the Inner Defeat of the Mind’, in Strains of Discord: Studies in Literary Openness (Ithaca: Cornell UP 1958), 146-57; rep. Robert A. Greenberg & William Bowman Piper, eds., The Writings of Jonathan Swift (NY: Norton 1973), pp.704-11.
  • ——, ‘Jonathan Swift, Thomas Swift and the Authorship of A Tale of a Tub’, Modern Philology 44 (February 1967), pp.198-232.
  • Aldiss, Brian, & David Wingrove, Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (London: Gollancz 1986).
  • ——, Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (London: Paladin 1988).
  • Allen, Robert J., ‘Swift’s Earliest Political Tract and Sir William Temple’s Essays’, in Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 19 (1937), pp.3-12.
  • Andreasen, J. C., ‘Swift’s Satire on the Occult in A Tale of a Tub’, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language 5 (Autumn 1963), pp.410-21.
  • Argent, Joseph E., ‘The Etymology of a Dystopia: Laputa Reconsidered’, in English Language Notes 34.1 (September 1996), pp.36-39.
  • Ball, F. Elrington, Swift’s Verse (1928).
  • Barash, Carol, ‘Violence and the Maternal: Swift, Psychoanalysis, and the 1720s’, in Christopher Fox, ed., Gulliver’s Travels [Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism] (Boston: St. Martin’s Press 1995), pp.442-64.
  • Barroll, J. Leeds, ‘Gulliver and the Struldbrugs’, in PMLA, 73 (March 1958), pp.43-50.
  • Beaumont, C. A., Swift’s Classical Rhetoric (Athens GA 1961).
  • Bellamy, Liz, Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1992).
  • Berwick, Donald. The Reputation of Jonathan Swift, 1781-1882 [1941] rep (NY 1969).
  • Birrell, Augustine, ‘Dean Swift’, in Essays about Men, Women, and Books (London: Stock 1895), pp.1-15.
  • Blamires, Harry, ‘The Age of Swift and Pope’, in Blamires, A Short History of English Literature [2nd edn.] (London: Routledge 1989), pp.160-80.
  • Blackwell, Mark R. [on Swift and Jonathan Smedley], in Aileen Douglas, et al., eds., Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745 (Dublin: Four Courts 1998).
  • Bloom, Allan, ‘An Outline of Gulliver’s Travels’, in Ancients and Moderns. Ed. Joseph Cropsey (NY: Basic Books 1964).
  • ——, ‘An Outline of Gulliver’s Travels’, in Robert A. Greenberg & William Bowman Piper, eds., The Writings of Jonathan Swift NY: Norton 1973), pp.648-61.
  • Boucé, Paul-Gabriel, ed. Guerres et Paix: La Grande-Bretagne au XVIIIe siècle, 2 vols (Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle 1998).
  • Boyle, Frank T. [on Gulliver’s Travels], in Aileen Douglas, et al.,. eds., Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745 (Dublin: Four Courts 1998).
  • Brady, F. Jonathan Swift. Englewood Cliffs (NJ), pp.Prentice (1968.
  • Bredvold, Louis I., ‘The Gloom of the Tory Satirists’, in James L. Clifford and Louis A. Landa, eds, Pope and His Contemporaries: Essays Presented to George Sherburn (Oxford: Clarendon 1949), pp.1-19.
  • ——, ‘The Gloom of the Tory Satirists’, in James L. Clifford, ed., Eighteenth-Century English Literature (NY: OUP 1959).
  • ——, ‘The Tory Satirists: Jonathan Swift’, in Bredvold, The Literature of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 1660-1798 (London: Collier-Macmillan 1962), pp.67-76.
  • Brown, Lloyd W., ‘The Person of Quality in the Eighteenth Century: Aspects of Swift’s Satire’, in Dalhousie Review 48 (Summer 1968), pp.171-84.
  • Brown, Norman O., ‘The Excremental Vision’, in Life against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History (Wesleyan UP; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1959), pp.179-201; rep. in Robert A. Greenberg & William Bowman Piper, eds., The Writings of Jonathan Swift (NY: Norton 1973), pp.611-30.
  • Bullitt, John M., Jonathan Swift and the Anatomy of Satire (Harvard UP 1953).
  • Bywaters, David, ‘Anticlericism in Swift’s Tale of a Tub’, in Studies in English Literature 36, 3 (q.d.). pp.579-602.
  • Carnochan, W. B. Lemuel Gulliver’s Mirror for Man (California UP 1968).
  • Case, Arthur E. Four Essays on Gulliver’s Travels. Princeton (1945.
  • ——, Four Essays on Gulliver’s Travels (Princeton UP; OUP 1947).
  • Castle, Terry, ‘Why the Houyhnhnms Don’t Write: Swift, Satire, and Fear of the Text’, in Christopher Fox, ed., Gulliver’s Travels [Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism] (Boston: St. Martin’s Press 1995). pp.379-95.
  • Celaya Villanueva, Mª Luz., ‘Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Los Viajes de Gulliver: Errors in Some 20th Century Translations into Spanish’, in J. C. Santoyo,. ed., Translation Across Cultures: La traducción entre el mundo hispánico y anglosajón: Relaciones lingüísticas, culturales y literarias. Actas XI Congreso AEDEAN (León: Universidad de León 1989), pp.59-64.
  • Characters of the Times: or, an Acoount of the Writings, Characters, &c., of several gentlemen libelled by S—— and P—— in a Late Miscellany (London (1728).
  • Chiasson, Elias J., ‘Swift’s Clothes Philosophy in the Tale and Hooker’s Concept of Law’, Studies in Philology 59 (January 1962), pp.64-82.
  • Christie, William, ‘Intimations of Immortality in Swift and Keats’, in Review of English Studies 48.192 (November 1997), pp.501.
  • Clark, John R., Form and Frenzy in Swift’s Tale of a Tub (Cornell UP 1970).
  • Clark, P. Odell, ‘A Gulliver Dictionary’, in Studies in Philology (1953) [q.pp.].
  • Clifford, James L., & Louis A. Landa, eds. Pope and His Contemporaries: Essays Presented to George Sherburn. Oxford: Clarendon (1949).
  • Clubb, Merrel D., ‘The Criticism of Gulliver’s ‘Voyage to the Houyhnhnms, 1726-1914’, in Stanford Studies in Language and Literature (1941), pp.203-32.
  • Concanen, Matthew, Letter on Swift and Pope’s Miscellanies, in British Journal (25 Nov. 1727).
  • Concanen, Matthew, et al., A Collection of all the Verses, Essays, Letters, and Advertisements Occasion’d by Mr. Pope and Swift’s Miscellanies (London: A. Moore 1728).
  • Conlon, Michael J., ‘Performance as Response in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels’, in Christopher Fox, ed., Gulliver’s Travels [Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism] (Boston: Martin’s Press 1995), pp.408-24.
  • Cook, Richard. Jonathan Swift as a Tory Pamphleteer (Seattle 1967).
  • Crane, R. S., ‘The Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, and the History of Ideas’, in Reason and the Imagination. Ed. J. A. Mazzeo (NY 1962.
  • Curll, Edmund, Some Annotations and Exlanatory Notes upon the Tale of a Tub [1710], extract in Robert A. Greenberg & William Bowman Piper, eds., The Writings of Jonathan Swift (NY: Norton 1973), pp.598-600.
  • Dargan, Henry M., ‘The Nature of Allegory as Used by Swift.’ Studies in Philology 13 (1916), pp.159-79.
  • Darnall, F. M., ‘Swift’s Religion.’ Journal of English and Germanic Philology 30 (1931), pp.379-82.
  • Davis, Herbert, ‘Swift’s View of Poetry’, in Davis, Studies in English (Toronto 1931).
  • ——, ‘The Conciseness of Swift’, in Essays on the Eighteenth Century Presented to David Nichol Smith. Oxford: Clarendon (1945.
  • ——, ‘The Conciseness of Swift’, in James L. Clifford, ed., Eighteenth-Century English Literature (OUP 1959), pp.84-101.
  • ——, The Satire of Jonathan Swift (NY 1947).
  • ——, ‘The Augustan Conception of History’, in J. A. Mazzeo, ed., Reason and the Imagination: Studies in the History of Ideas, 1600-1800 (1962), pp.213-29 [on Clarendon, Pope & Swift].
  • ——, ed. Glossary of Terms in Gulliver’s Travels (Shakespeare Head Press 1959).
  • Deane, Seamus, ‘Swift and Deane: Territories of the Heart’, in Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund Burke (Cork UP/Notre Dame UP 2005), pp.11-27.
  • Dearing, Vinton A., ‘New Light on the First Printing of the Letters of Pope and Swift’, in Library 24 (1943), pp.74-80.
  • Delany, Patrick, Observations upon Lord Orrery’s Remarks (1754).
  • Dircks, Richard J., ‘Gulliver’s Tragic Rationalism’, Criticism 2 (Spring 1960), pp.134-49.
  • Domínguez Caballero de Rodas, Pedro, ‘El patriota hibernés: una aproximación a la sátira política de Jonathan Swift.’ Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 6 (1993), pp.63-72.
  • Donoghue, Denis, The Practice of Reading (Yale UP 1998)
  • Doody, Margaret Anne, ‘Swift and the Mess of Narrative’, in Aileen Douglas, et al., eds., Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745 (Dublin: Four Courts 1998.
  • Douglas, Aileen, Patrick Kelly and Ian Campbell Ross, eds. Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745 (Dublin: Four Courts 1998).
  • Dyson, A. E., ‘Swift: The Metamorphosis of Irony’, Essays and Studies [English Association 1958] (London: Macmillan [1959]), pp.53-67.
  • ——, ‘Swift: The Metamorphosis of Irony’, in Robert A. Greenberg & William Bowman Piper, eds., The Writings of Jonathan Swift (NY: Norton 1973), pp.672-84.
  • Eagleton, Terry. Heathcliff and the Great Hunger (London: Verso 1995) [q.pp.].
  • Eddy, William A., Gulliver’s Travels: A Critical Study (Princeton: Peter Smith 1923).
  • Ehrenpreis, Irwin, ‘The Meaning of Gulliver’s Last Voyage’, in A Review of English Literature 3 (July 1962), pp.18-38.
  • Elliott, Robert C., ‘Gulliver as Literary Artist’, A Journal of English Literary History 19 (March 1952), pp.49-63.
  • ——, The Power of Satire: Magic, Ritual, Art (Princeton UP 1960).
  • England, A. B., ‘World Without Order: Some Thoughts on the Poetry of Swift’, Essays in Criticism 16 (January 1966), pp.32-43.
  • Erskine-Hill, Howard, Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Cambridge UP 1993).
  • Ewald, William B., The Masks of Swift (Harvard UP 1954).
  • Fabricant, Carole, ‘History, Narrativity, and Swift’s Project to ‘Mend the World’’, in Christopher Fox, ed., Swift, Gulliver’s Travels [Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism] (Boston: St. Martin’s Press 1995), pp.348-65.
  • ——, ‘Swift’s Political Legacy’, in Aileen Douglas, et al., eds., Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745 (Dublin: Four Courts 1998).
  • Firth, Charles H. [Sir], ‘The Political Significance of Gulliver’s Travels.’ Proceedings of the British Academy 9 (1920). rep.. in Firth, Essays Historical and Literary. Oxford (1938.
  • Flynn, Carol Houlihan. The Body in Swift and Defoe [Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, 5] (Cambridge UP 1990).
  • Forster, J.-P., Jonathan Swift: The Fictions of the Satirist [Europäische Hochschulschriften, Reihe XIV, Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur, vol. 220 (Berne: Peter Lang 1991).
  • Foster, M. P., ed. A Casebook on Gulliver among the Houyhnhnms. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell (1961.
  • Francus, Marilyn, ‘The Monstrous Mother: Reproductive Anxiety in Swift and Pope’, ELH 1994
  • Frantz, Ray W., ‘Gulliver’s ’Cousin Symphathy’.’ Huntington Library Quarterly 1 (1938), pp.329-34.
  • Frost, William, ‘The Irony of Swift and Gibbon’, Essays in Criticism 17 (1967), pp.41-47. Selection in The Writings of Jonathan Swift. Ed. Robert A. Greenberg and William Bowman Piper (NY: Norton 1973. 684-88.
  • Frye, Ronald M., ‘Swift’s Yahoos and the Christian Symbols for Sin’, Journal of the History of Ideas 15 (April 1954), pp.201-17.
  • Gonzálvez García, Francisco. ‘Finding, Seeing, Thinking and Observing in English Utopian Literature: Towards an Understanding of the Relevance of ‘NP+XP’ Complement Constructions in the Morphology and Grammar of J. Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels’, Atlantis 22.2 (Dec. 2000), pp.69-91.
  • Gould, Stephen Jay, ‘Sweetness and Light’, in Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History [1996] (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1997), pp.76-87.
  • ——, ‘Dulzura y luz’, in Gould, Un dinosaurio en un pajar. Barcelona: Crítica (1997. 87-97.
  • Goulding, Sybil, Swift en France (Paris 1924).
  • Gravil, Richard, ed. Swift: Gulliver’s Travels [Casebooks series] (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1978).
  • Greene, Donald, ‘On Swift’s “Scatological” Poems’, in Sewanee Review 75 (Autumn 1967), pp.672-89.
  • Greenacre, P., ‘The Mutual Adventures of Jonathan Swift and Lemuel Gulliver’, Psychoanalytic Quarterly 24 (1955).
  • Guerra Bosch, Teresa., ‘Jonathan Swift y El Quijote’, in Actas del XXI Congreso Internacional AEDEAN. Ed. Fernando Toda et al. Sevilla: U de Sevilla (1999. 121-26.
  • Gulliver Decypher’d. Key to political commentary. 1727.
  • Halewood, William H., Marvin Levich., ‘Houyhnhnm Est Animal Rationale’, in Journal of the History of Ideas, 26 (1965), pp.273-78.
  • Hand, George, ‘Swift and Marriage’, Essays and Studies by Members of the Department of English of the University of California 14 (1943), pp.73-92.
  • Hammond, Brean, Gulliver’s Travels (Milton Keynes: Open UP 1988).
  • Hart, Philip. Swift and Anglican Rationalism: The Religious Background of A Tale of A tub. Chicago (1961.
  • Hearsey, Marguerite, ‘New Light on the Evidence for Swift’s Marriage’ in PMLA 42 (1927), pp.157-61.
  • Hopkins, Robert H., ‘The Personation of Hobbism in Swift’s Tale of a Tub and Mechanical Operation of the Spirit’, in Philological Quarterly 45 (April 1966), pp.372-78.
  • Hurtley, Jacqueline, ‘Thomas More and Jonathan Swift: The Utopia as Satire’, Anuario de Filología, 11 (Universidad de Barcelona (1985), pp.393-99.
  • Jeffares, A. Norman, ed. Fair Liberty Was All His Cry (NY 1967).
  • ——, Swift [Modern judgements] (Nashville: Aurora Publishers [1970]), 279pp. [22cm.; see contents].
  • Jefferson, D. W., ‘Swift and the Tradition of Wit’, in From Dryden to Johnson. Vol. 4 of The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, ed., Boris Ford (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1991), pp.195-213.
  • Johnson, Maurice. The Sin of Wit: Jonathan Swift as a Poet (Syracuse UP 1950).
  • ——, ‘‘Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift’’, in Notes & Queries 199 (November 1954), pp.473-74.
  • Johnston, Maurice, ‘Text, and Possible Occasion for Swift’s ‘Day of Judgment’’, in PMLA 76 (1971), pp.210-17.
  • Jones, Richard Foster, Ancients and Moderns: A Study of the Background of The Battle of the Books (St. Louis 1936; rRev. edn. St. Louis 1961).
  • Kallich, Martin. The Other End of the Egg: Religious Satire in Gulliver’s Travels. Bridgeport (1970.
  • Karpman, B., ‘Neurotic Traits of Jonathan Swift’, Psychoanalytic Review 29 (1942).
  • Kelling, Harold D. ‘Gulliver’s Travels: A Comedy of Humours’, University of Toronto Quarterly 21 (July 1952), pp.362-75.
  • ——, ‘Reason in Madness: A Tale of a Tub’, PMLA 69 (March 1954), pp.198-222.
  • King, William. Remarks on the Tale of a Tub. 1704.
  • Kulishek, Clarence L., ‘Swift’s Octosyllabics and the Hudibrastic Tradition’, Journal of English and German Philology 53 (July 1954), pp.361-68.
  • Landa, Louis A., rev. of John F. Ross, Swift and Defoe: A Study in Relationship (California UP 1941), in Philological Quarterly 21 (1942), pp.221-23.
  • ——, ‘Swift, the Mysteries, and Deism.’ Studies in English, University of Texas (Austin 1945), pp.-56.
  • ——, ‘A Modest Proposal and Populousness.’ Modern Philology 40 (November 1942), pp.161-70.
  • ——, ‘A Modest Proposal and Populousness’, in James L. Clifford, ed., Eighteenth-Century English Literature (OUP 1959), pp.102-11.
  • ——, ‘Swift’s Economic Views and Mercantilism.’ ELH 10 (1943), pp.310-35.
  • Landa, Louis A., ‘Jonathan Swift and Charity’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 44 (1945), pp.337-50.
  • Leavis, F. R., ‘The Irony of Swift’, Scrutiny 2.4 (March 1934), pp.364-78.
  • ——, ‘The Irony of Swift.’ The Common Pursuit (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1962), pp. 73-87.
  • Lemuel Gulliver’s Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World Compendiously Methodiz’d (1726).
  • Letter on Pope and Swift, in Flying Post (8 August 1728).
  • Levine, Jay Arnold, ‘The Design of A Tale of a Tub (with a Digression on a Mad Modern Critic)’, in English Literary History 33 (1966), pp.198-227 [Swift and Nabokov].
  • ——, ‘The Design of A Tale of a Tub’, ELH 33.2 (1966), pp.214-17. In The Writings of Jonathan Swift. Ed. Robert A. Greenberg and William Bowman Piper (NY: Norton 1973): 712-15.
  • Looten, C. La pensée religieuse de Swift et ses antinomies. Lille and Paris (1935).
  • López García, Dámaso, ‘Jonathan Swift: Los límites de la hermenéutica.’ Revista de Filología Moderna 2/3 (1992), pp.195-216.
  • Losada Friend, María, ‘El discurso de la autoridad disfrazado: el poder en las islas imaginarias de Swift y Shakespeare’, Actas del XXI Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN. Ed. F. Toda et al. Sevilla: U de Sevilla (1999. 347-51.
  • Lunacharsky, Anatoly, ‘Jonathan Swift and ’A Tale of a Tub’.’ 1930. In Lunacharsky, On Literature and Art. Moscow: Progress (1965), pp.306-20.
  • Mack, Maynard, ‘The First Printing of the Letters of Pope and Swift’ in Library 19 (1939), pp.45-85.
  • Mahony, Robert, Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity (Yale UP 1995).
  • Mahony, Robert, ‘Protestant Dependence and Consumption in Swift’s Irish Writings’, in S. J. Connolly, ed., Political Thought in Eighteenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), pp.83-104.
  • Martínez Lorente, Joaquín, ‘Literatura utópica inglesa y teoría de los géneros literarios: Estudio de Utopia, New Atlantis y Gulliver’s Travels desde un punto de vista genérico’ (U de Murcia; q.d.).
  • McHugh, Roger, & Philip Edward, eds., Jonathan Swift 1667-1967 (Chester Springs, PA 1968).
  • McIntosh, Carey, The Evolution of English Prose (1700-1800: Style, Politeness and Print Culture (Cambridge UP 1998) [Swift, Defoe, Shaftsbury, Johnson & Burke].
  • Monk, Samuel Holt, ‘The Pride of Lemuel Gulliver’, Sewanee Review (Winter 1955), pp.48-71.
  • ——, ‘The Pride of Lemuel Gulliver’, in James L. Clifford, ed., Eighteenth-Century English Literature (OUP 1959), pp.112-29.
  • ——, ‘The Pride of Lemuel Gulliver’, in Robert A. Greenberg & William Bowman Piper, eds., The Writings of Jonathan Swift (NY: Norton 1973), pp.631-47.
  • Moore, John B., ‘The Role of Gulliver’, Modern Philology 25 (May 1928), pp.469-80.
  • Moore, John R., ‘The Geography of Gulliver’s Travels.’ Journal of English and Germanic Philology 40 (1941), pp.214-28.
  • Nandy, Dipak [on A Tale of a Tub] in Modern Philology 46 (May 1969), pp.333-37.
  • Nicolson, Marjorie, & Nora M. Mohler, ‘The Scientific Background of Swift’s “Voyage to Laputa”’, in Annals of Science, 2 (1937), pp.299-334.
  • ——, ‘The Scientific Background of Swift’s Voyage to Laputa’, in Nicolson, Science and Imagination (Ithaca: Cornell UP 1956).
  • ——, ‘Swift’s Flying Island in the “Voyage to Laputa”’, in Annals of Science 2 (1937), pp.405-30.
  • Novak, M. E., and H. J. David, The Uses of Irony: Papers on Defoe and Swift [William Andrews Clark Memorial Library] (LA: [Univ. of California] 1966).
  • Nussbaum, Felicity A., ‘Gulliver’s Malice: Gender and the Satiric Stance’, in Christopher Fox, ed., Gulliver’s Travels [Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism] (Boston: St. Martin’s Press 1995), pp.318-34.
  • O’Hehir, Brendan, ‘Meaning in Swift’s “Description of a City Shower’’’, in A Journal of English Literary History, 27 (Sept. 1960), pp.194-207.
  • Oldmixon, John, Letter contra Gulliver and Pope in Flying Post (4 April 1728).
  • ——, ‘A Fragment of a Treatise upon Swift and Pope’, Flying Post (6 April 1728).
  • ——, Verses contra Swift and Pope’s Homer, in Flying Post (13 April 1728).
  • Orrery [Charles, Fifth Earl]], Remarks on the Life & Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift [3rd edn. Corrected 1752).
  • Paulson, Ronald, ‘Swift, Stella and Permanence’, A Journal of English Literary History 27 (December 1960), pp.298-314.
  • ——, Theme and Structure in Swift’s Tale of a Tub (New Haven 1960).
  • Peake, Charles. Jonathan Swift and the Art of Raillery (Monaco: Princess Grace Irish Library Lectures).
  • Pons, Emile, Swift: Les années de jeunesse et le Conte du Tonneau (Strasbourg 1925).
  • Pope, Alexander, ‘[Swift’s Odd Blunt Way]’, in Anecdotes, Observations and Characters of Books and Men: Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope by Joseph Spence (1820); rep. in Robert A. Greenberg & William Bowman Piper (NY: Norton 1973), pp.602.
  • Price, Martin, Swift’s Rhetorical Art: A Study in Structure and Meaning (Yale UP 1953).
  • ——, ‘Swift’s Rhetorical Art’, From Price, Swift’s Rhetorical Art: A Study in Structure and Meaning (Yale UP 1953), pp. 78-82, in Robert A. Greenberg & William Bowman Piper, eds., The Writings of Jonathan Swift (NY: Norton 1973), pp.699-704.
  • ——, To the Palace of Wisdom. Garden City (NY: Doubleday (1964).
  • Probyn, Clive T. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1989).
  • Quinlan, Maurice J., ‘Swift’s Use of Literalization as a Rhetorical Device’, PMLA 82 (December 1967), pp.516-21.
  • Quintana, Ricardo, The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift (NY: Oxford UP 1936); rep. (Gloucester MA 1953); [2nd edn.] (London: Methuen 1953).
  • ——, Swift: An Introduction (NY 1955).
  • Rabb, Melinda Alliker, [on Swift and Mrs. Manley], rep. in Aileen Douglas, et al., eds., Locating Swift (Dublin: Four Courts 1998).
  • Rawson, C. J., ‘Gulliver and the Gentle Reader’, in Imagined Worlds: Some English Novels and Novelists in Honour of John Butt, ed. M. Mack & I. Gregor (London: Methuen 1968) [extract in Robert A. Greenberg & William Bowman Piper, eds., The Writings of Jonathan Swift (NY: Norton 1973), pp.688-93.
  • Rawson, Claude, ed. Jonathan Swift: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall 1994).
  • Read, Herbert, ‘Swift’, in Read, Essays in Literary Criticism (London: Faber (1969. 62-85.
  • Hermann J. Real, ed., The reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe [The Athlone Critical Traditions Ser. (London & NY: Thoemmes 2005), xxxii, 378pp.
  • Reichert, John F., ‘Plato, Swift, and the Houynhnms’, Philological Quarterly 47 (April 1968), pp.179-92.
  • Reimers, Hans. Jonathan Swift: Gedanken und Schriften über Religion und Kirche (Hamburg (1935).
  • Roberts, Marie Mulvey, & Hugh Ormsby-Lennon, eds. Secret Texts: The Literature of Secret Societies (AMS Press 1998)[Swift, Dickens, Peacock, Paladin, Kipling, Yeats, & A. E. Waite].
  • Roome, E., Dean Jonathan’s Paraphrase on the Fourth Chapter of Genesis (1729) [contra Pope and Swift].
  • Roscelli, William John, ‘A Tale of a Tub and the ‘Cavils of the Sour’’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 64 (January 1965), pp.41-56.
  • Rosenheim, Edward W. Jr., Swift and the Satirist’s Art (Chicago UP 1963).
  • ——, ‘The Satiric Fiction’, in Swift and the Satirist’s Art (Chicago UP Press 1963), pp.158-60, 166-67, rep. in Robert A. Greenberg & William Bowman Piper, eds., The Writings of Jonathan Swift (NY: Norton 1973), pp.669-72.
  • Ross, John F., ‘The Final Comedy of Lemuel Gulliver’, Studies in the Comic (Univ. of California Publications in English 8.2 [1941]). 176-96.
  • ——, Swift and Defoe: A Study in Relationship. Berkeley and Los Angeles (1941).
  • Rousseau, G. S., ‘From Swift to Smollett: The Satirical Tradition in Prose Narrative’, in John Richetti et al., eds,. The Columbia History of the British Novel (Columbia UP 1994), pp.127-53.
  • Sacks, Sheldon. Fiction and the Shape of Belief: A Study of Henry Fielding, with Glances at Swift, Johnson and Richardson (California UP 1964).
  • Said, Edward W., ‘Swift’s Tory Anarchy’ and ‘Swift as Intellectual’, in The World, the Text, and the Critic [1983] (London: Vintage (1991), pp.54-72.
  • San Juan, E., Jr., ‘The Anti-Poetry of Jonathan Swift’, in Philological Quarterly 44 (July 1965), pp.387-96.
  • Sherburn, George, ‘Errors Concerning the Houyhnhnms’, Modern Philology 56 (November 1958), pp.92-97.
  • Sherburn, George, & Donald F. Bond, ‘Jonathan Swift’, in The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1789). Vol. 3 of A. C. Baugh, ed., A Literary History of England (London: Routledge 1948; 2nd edn. 1967), pp.857-69.
  • Slepian, Barry, ‘The Ironic Intention of Swift’s Verses on His Own Death’, Review of English Studies 14 (August 1963), pp.249-56.
  • Smedley, Jonathan, The Metamorphosis of Scriblerus into Snarlerus (London: A. Moore 1728).
  • ——, ed. Gulliveriana and Alexandriana; with an ample preface and critique on Swift and Pope’s Miscellanies (London: J. Roberts 1728).
  • ——, ed. Gulliveriana secunda (1728) [On Pope and Swift].
  • Smith, Curtis C., ‘Metaphor Structure in Swift’s Tale of a Tub’, in Thoth 5 (1964), pp.22-41.
  • Smith, David Nichol, ‘Jonathan Swift, Some Observations’, in Transactions of the Royal Society for Literature 14 (1935), pp.29-48.
  • Smith, Frederick N., ‘Dramatic Elements in Swift’s Journal to Stella’, in Eighteenth-Century Studies 1 (June 1968), pp.332-52.
  • Starkman, Miriam K., ‘Swift’s Rhetoric: The ‘Overfraught Pinnace’?’ South Atlantic Quarterly 68 (Spring 1969), pp.188-97.
  • ——, Swift’s Satire on Learning in A Tale of a Tub. Princeton (1950.
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Bibliographies
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Related writings
  • Mary Wortley Montagu, ‘The Reasons That Induced Dr. Swift to Write a Poem Called "The Lady’s Dressing Room"’, rep. in M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al., eds., The Norton Anthology of English Literature [7th edn.] (NY: Norton 1999), Vol. .1, 2588-90.
  • Alexander Pope, ‘Imitations of English Poets’, in Adolphus William Ward, ed., The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (London: Macmillan 1879).
  • ——, ‘Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver’, in Robert A. Greenberg & William Bowman Piper, eds., The Writings of Jonathan Swift (NY: Norton 1973), pp.603-5.

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