From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English langua

Jonathan Swift: Our Dean details the political climax of his remarkable career—his writing and publication of The Drapier’s Letters (1724), Gulliver’s Tra

An account of Swift's dealings with books and texts, showing how the business of print was transformed during his lifetime.

Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in (along with its companion, Jonathan Swift: Our Dean) aspires to be the most accurate and engaging critical biography of Jonathan S

In Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word, Deborah Wyrick argues that modern Continental and American literary theory is "tantalizingly applicable to Swiftian texts