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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Titre(s) : Journal to Stella [Texte imprimé] : letters to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley, 1710-1713 / Jonathan Swift ; edited by Abigail Williams
Titre d'ensemble : The Cambridge edition of the works of Jonathan Swift ; 9
Lien au titre d'ensemble : Appartient à : The Cambridge edition of the works of Jonathan Swift
Publication : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge university press, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (LXXXIX-800 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Machine generated contents note: General editor's preface; Chronology; Introduction;
Letters; Textual account; Appendices; Bibliography.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 735-749) and index
"The Journal to Stella offers a detailed commentary on Swift's experiences in London
in the last years of Queen Anne's reign, and substantial evidence of his evolving
relationship with Esther Johnson, or Stella. This new edition seeks for the first
time both to situate the text alongside Swift's other works, and to draw on recent
scholarship on the period to offer commentary and annotation, which will place it
within its original political, historical and cultural contexts. It offers transcriptions
of the manuscript portion of the letters, based on the latest digital image analysis
techniques. These will represent the text for the first time, complete with his purposeful
obliterations. In addition to a new critical introduction and appendices, there is
also a biographical appendix derived from recently available resources from the History
of Parliament, Irish History of Parliament and ODNB projects" ; "The Cambridge Edition
of the Works of Jonathan Swift is the first fully annotated scholarly edition ever
undertaken of Swift's complete works in both verse and prose. The great editions of
Swift by Herbert Davis and Harold Williams have remained standard for over half a
century. We are all greatly indebted to them, but the time has come to replace or
revise their texts and commentary in the light of subsequent historical, biographical
and textual knowledge. Davis's sixteen-volume edition of the Prose Writings offered
valuable introductions but no annotation. The commentary to his separate edition of
The Drapier's Letters, and Williams's commentaries to the Poems and Journal to Stella,
though excellent in their time, must now be supplemented by a considerable body of
more recent scholarship. The Cambridge Edition's detailed introductions, notes and
appendices aim to provide an informed understanding of Swift's place in the political
and cultural history of England and Ireland, and to establish the historical, literary
and bibliographical contexts of his immense achievement as a prose satirist, poet
and political writer. The editors of individual volumes include distinguished historians,
as well as leading scholars of eighteenth-century literature. For the Cambridge Edition,
Swift's texts will be collate"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Williams, Abigail. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Johnson, Esther (1681-1728) -- Correspondance
Dingley, Rebecca (1666-1743) -- Correspondance
Genre ou forme : Correspondance
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780521841665 (hardback). - ISBN 0521841666 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44302155k
Notice n° :
FRBNF44302155
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