BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND
REFERENCE MATERIALS
Berwick, Donald M., The Reputation of Jonathan Swift, 1781–1882 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941; repr. New York: Haskell House, 1965).
Landa, Louis A., and Tobin, James Edward, Jonathan Swift: A List of Critical Studies Published from 1895 to 1945 (repr. New York: Octagon Books, 1975 [1945]).
LeFanu, William R., A Catalogue of Books Belonging to Dr Jonathan Swift: Dean of St Patrick’s (Cambridge: Cambridge Bibliographic Society, 1988).
Rodino, Richard H., Swift Studies 1965–1980: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: Garland, 1984).
Stathis, James J., A Bibliography of Swift Studies 1945–1965 (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1967).
Teerink, H., and Scouten, Arthur H., A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift (2nd edn, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963).
Voigt, Milton, Swift and the Twentieth Century (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1964).
Williams, Harold, Dean Swift’s Library (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1932).
Williams, Kathleen (ed.), Swift: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1970).
MODERN EDITIONS OF SWIFT
Collected Works
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, ed. Herbert Davis, 14 vols. (Oxford: Blackwell’s, 1939–74).
The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963–5).
The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. David Woolley, 4 vols. (Frankfurt am Main and New York: Peter Lang, 1999–2007).
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937; rev. edn. 1958).
Jonathan Swift: The Complete Poems, ed. Pat Rogers (London and New York: Penguin, 1983).
Individual Works
The Account Books of Jonathan Swift, ed. Dorothy Thompson and Paul Thompson (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1984).
A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions Between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, ed. Frank H. Ellis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967).
The Drapier’s Letters, ed. Herbert Davis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935).
Gulliver’s Travels, ed. Robert A. Greenberg (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 1961; 1970); ed. Albert J. Rivero (2001).
Gulliver’s Travels, ed. Paul Turner (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1971; Oxford’s World’s Classics, 1994).
The Intelligencer (with Thomas Sheridan), ed. James Woolley (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).
Journal to Stella, ed. Harold Williams, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948; repr. as vols. 15–16 of Prose Works of Jonathan Swift).
The Letters of Jonathan Swift to Charles Ford, ed. David Nichol Smith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935; repr. Folcroft Press, 1969).
Swift’s Polite Conversation, ed. Eric Partridge (London: André Deutsch, 1963).
A Tale of a Tub (et al.), ed. A. C. Guthkelch and D. Nichol Smith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920; rev. edn. 1958).
MODERN BIOGRAPHIES
Downie, J. A., Jonathan Swift: Political Writer (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984).
Ehrenpreis, Irvin, Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age, 3 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1962–83).
Elias, A. C., Jr., Swift at Moor Park: Problems in Biography and Criticism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982).
Glendinning, Victoria, Jonathan Swift (London: Hutchinson, 1998).
McMinn, Joseph, Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life (Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin’s Press, 1991).
Nokes, David, Jonathan Swift, A Hypocrite Reversed: A Critical Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
CRITICISM AND COMMENTARY
NB This list does not contain studies focused on A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver’s Travels or Swift’s poetry.
Collections of Essays
Connery, Brian A. (ed.), Representations of Swift (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002).
Douglas, Aileen, Kelly, Patrick, and Ross, Ian Campbell (eds.), Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, 1667–1745 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998).
Fox, Christopher, and Tooley, Brenda (eds.), Walking Naboth’s Vineyard: New Studies of Swift (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995).
Jeffares, A. Norman (ed.), Fair Liberty Was All His Cry: A Tercentenary Tribute to Jonathan Swift, 1667–1745 (London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin’s Press, 1967).
McHugh, Roger, and Edwards, Philip (eds.), Jonathan Swift, 1667–1745: A Dublin Tercentenary Tribute (Dublin: Dolmen Press; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).
Palmieri, Frank (ed.), Critical Essays on Jonathan Swift (New York: G. K. Hall, 1993).
Probyn, Clive T. (ed.), The Art of Jonathan Swift (London: Vision Press, 1978).
Rawson, Claude J. (ed.), The Character of Swift’s Satire: A Revised Focus (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983).
Tuveson, Ernest (ed.), Swift: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1964).
Vickers, Brian (ed.), The World of Jonathan Swift: Essays for the Tercentenary (Oxford: Blackwell, 1968).
General Studies of Swift’s Satire and Prose Writings
Bullitt, John M., Jonathan Swift and the Anatomy of Satire: A Study of Satiric Technique (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953).
Davis, Herbert, Jonathan Swift: Essays on His Satire and Other Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964).
Donoghue, Denis, Jonathan Swift: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969).
Fabricant, Carole, Swift’s Landscape (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982; repr. with new introduction, Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995).
Kelly, Ann Cline, Swift and the English Language (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988).
Price, Martin, Swift’s Rhetorical Art: A Study in Structure and Meaning (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953).
Quintana, Ricardo, Swift: An Introduction (London: Oxford University Press, 1955).
Rawson, C. J., Gulliver and the Gentle Reader: Studies in Swift and Our Time (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973).
Reilly, Patrick, Jonathan Swift: The Brave Desponder (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1982).
Rosenheim, Edward W., Swift and the Satirist’s Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963).
Steele, Peter, Jonathan Swift: Preacher and Jester (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978).
Williams, Kathleen, Jonathan Swift and the Age of Compromise (London: Constable, 1959).
Wyrick, Deborah Baker, Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1988).
Historical, Political and Literary Backgrounds
Armitage, David, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Beckett, J. C., The Anglo-Irish Tradition (London: Faber, 1976).
Brewer, John, The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988 [1990]).
Connolly, S. J., Religion, Law, and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660–1760 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992; Clarendon Press, 1995).
Craig, Maurice, Dublin 1660–1860: A Social and Architectural History (Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1969).
Elliot, Robert C., The Power of Satire: Magic, Literature, Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960).
Fauske, Christopher J., Jonathan Swift and the Church of Ireland, 1710–1724 (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Irish Academic Press, 2002).
Ferguson, Oliver W., Jonathan Swift and Ireland (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962).
Fox, Christopher (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Goldgar, Bertrand A., Walpole and the Wits: The Relation of Politics to Literature, 1722–1742 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976).
Higgins, Ian, Swift’s Politics: A Study in Disaffection (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Hill, Christopher, The Century of Revolution 1603–1714, Norton Library History of England (New York: Norton, 1961).
James, Francis Godwin, Ireland in the Empire, 1688–1770: A History of Ireland from the Williamite Wars to the Eve of the American Revolution (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973).
Johnston, Edith Mary, Ireland in the Eighteenth Century (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1974).
Landa, Louis A., Swift and the Church of Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954).
Leerssen, Joep, Mere Irish and Fior-Ghael: Studies in the Idea of Irish Nationality, its Development and Literary Expression prior to the Nineteenth Century (Cork: Cork University Press, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press [Field Day Monographs], 1997 [1984]).
McLoughlin, Thomas, Contesting Ireland: Irish Voices against England in the Eighteenth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999).
Mahony, Robert, Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995).
Mercier, Vivian, The Irish Comic Tradition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962; repr. 1992).
Nokes, David, Raillery and Rage: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Satire (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1987).
Paulson, Ronald, The Fictions of Satire (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967).
Rogers, Pat, Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture (London: Methuen, 1972); abridged as Hacks and Dunces: Pope, Swift and Grub Street (London: Methuen, 1980).
Speck, W. A., Stability and Strife: England 1714–1760 (London: Edward Arnold, 1977; rev. edn. 1984).