Claude Rawson examines the evolution of satirical writing in the period 1660-1830.

"Gulliver's travels purports to be a travel book.

This book looks afresh at how we have confronted the idea of 'barbarism', in ourselves and others, from 1492 to 1945, through the voices of many writers, chiefly Montaigne, Swift and, to a lesser extent, Shaw.

This book will be of interest to students of literature, as well as those researching in the area of literature.

This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets.

"Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display.

This is true of writers who were his friends and admirers (Pope), of adversaries (Mandeville, Johnson), of several who became great ironists in his shadow (Gibbon, Austen), and of some surprising examples of Swiftian afterlife (Chatterton).