Bibliography


The number of books and articles about Swift is extensive. The works listed below only begin to suggest the sheer range of writing on Swift. This list can be updated and supplemented by consulting the works listed in the bibliographical section below and by browsing such online search engines as MLAIB, The MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures and ABELL, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Printed journals such as The Scriblerian and Swift Studies also contain helpful listings of recent work.

Modern editions

Correspondence. Ed. Harold Williams. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963–65. 5 vols. Standard edition, but see David Woolley below.
Correspondence. Ed. David Woolley. Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang, 1999–. In progress, with four volumes projected, two published at this time.
Poems. Ed. Harold Williams. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958. 3 vols.
Complete Poems. Ed. Pat Rogers. Harmondsworth: Penguin and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. Excellent annotations.
Prose Works. Ed. Herbert Davis et al. Oxford: Blackwell, 1939–74, 14 vols. Standard edition. Volume XIV contains an index.
Swift’s Irish Pamphlets: An Introductory Selection. Ed. Joseph McMinn. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1991.
Jonathan Swift. Ed. Angus Ross and David Woolley. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Helpful annotations.

Individual works

A Discourse of the Contests and Dissentions Between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome. Ed. Frank H. Ellis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. Excellent edition of Swift’s first major published work.
The Drapier’s Letters. Ed. Herbert Davis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935. Annotations.
Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. Paul Turner. London: Oxford University Press, 1971; 2nd rev. edn. 1986. Excellent annotations.
Gulliver’s Travels: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. Ed. Christopher Fox. Boston and New York: Bedford Books and St. Martin’s Press; London: Macmillan, 1995. Contains a brief critical history and essays from five different theoretical stances.
Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. Albert J. Rivero. New York and London: Norton, 2002. Based on the first edition of 1726; contains sections devoted to contexts and criticism.
The Intelligencer. Ed. James Woolley. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Splendid annotations and information on Swift’s collaboration with Thomas Sheridan.
Journal to Stella. Ed. Harold Williams. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948. 2 vols. Sometimes also listed by scholars as volumes XV and XVI of the Davis Prose Works.
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus. Ed. Charles Kerby-Miller. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950; reprinted New York: Russell and Russell, 1966. Splendid edition of Swift’s collaboration with Arbuthnot, Pope, and the Scriblerians.
Polite Conversation. Ed. Eric Partridge. London: Deutsch, 1963.
Swift vs. Mainwaring: The Examiner and the Medley. Ed. Frank H. Ellis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.
A Tale of a Tub. Eds. A. C. Guthkelch and D. Nichol Smith. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958.
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works. Eds. Angus Ross and David Woolley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. Helpful annotations.

Bibliographical

Berwick, Donald M. The Reputation of Jonathan Swift, 1782–1882. 1941; reprinted New York: Haskell, 1965.
Landa, Louis and James Edward Tobin. Jonathan Swift: A List of Critical Studies Published from 1895 to 1945. New York: Octagon Books, 1975.
Stathis, James J. A Bibliography of Swift Studies 1945–1965. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1967.
Rodino, Richard H. Swift Studies, 1965–1980: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1984.
Teerink, H. and Arthur H. Scouten. A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift. 2nd edn. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963. The standard listing of all Swift’s writings.
Vieth, David M. Swift’s Poetry 1900–1980: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies. New York: Garland, 1982.
Voigt, Milton. Swift and the Twentieth Century. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1964.
Williams, Kathleen, ed. Swift: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. Helpful selection of the earliest responses to Swift from the eighteenth-century to 1819.

Biographical

Ehrenpreis, Irvin. Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age. London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962–83. 3 vols. The standard biography.
Elias, Jr., A. C. Swift at Moor Park: Problems in Biography and Criticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Studies Swift’s years with Sir William Temple.
Harrison, Alan. The Dean’s Friend: Anthony Raymond 1675–1726, Jonathan Swift And the Irish Language. Dublin: Éamonn de Búrca, 1999. Swift and Irish speakers.
Johnson, Samuel. Swift. In George Birkbeck Hill (ed.) Lives of the English Poets. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. Vol. III, pp. 1–74. Influential.
McMinn, Joseph. Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991. Concise and lucid.
Nokes, David. Jonathan Swift, A Hypocrite Reversed: A Critical Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Fine one-volume study.
Orrery, John Boyle, Fifth Earl, Remarks On The Life And Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift. Ed. João Fróes. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000. Annotated edition of influential 1751 work.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs. Ed. A. C. Elias, Jr. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1997. 2 vols. Contemporary view of Swift by one who knew him well.

General critical studies

Brown, Laura. “Reading Race and Gender: Jonathan Swift.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 23 (1990), 425–43.
Brown, Norman O. “The Excremental Vision.” In Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1959, pp. 179–201.
Brückmann, Patricia Carr. A Manner of Correspondence: A Study of the Scriblerus Club. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997.
Connery, Brian “Self-Representation, Authority, and the Fear of Madness in the Works of Swift.” In Leslie Ellen Brown and Patricia B. Craddock (eds.) Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. XX. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1990, pp. 165–82.
Crook, Keith. A Preface to Swift. London and New York: Longman, 1998.
Deane, Seamus. “Swift and the Anglo-Irish Intellect.” Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr 1 (1986) 9–22.
Donoghue, Denis. Jonathan Swift: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.
Doody, Margaret Anne. “Swift Among the Women.” Yearbook of English Studies 18 (1988), 68–92.
Downie, J. A. Jonathan Swift: Political Writer. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. Advances view of Swift as an “Old” Whig.
Downie, J. A. Robert Harley and the Press: Propaganda and Public Opinion in the Age of Swift and Defoe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Elliott, Robert C. The Power of Satire: Satire, Ritual, Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960. A classic study.
Elliott, Robert C. The Literary Persona. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Fabricant, Carole. Swift’s Landscape. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982; 2nd rev. edn. Notre Dame, IN and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995. One of the best general studies.
Fabricant, Carole. “The Battle of the Ancients and (Post) Moderns: Rethinking Swift Through Contemporary Perspectives.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 32 (1991), 256–73.
Ferguson, Oliver. Jonathan Swift and Ireland. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962. Excellent on Irish contexts.
Flynn, Carol Houlihan. The Body in Swift and Defoe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Francus, Marilyn. The Converting Imagination: Linguistic Theory and Swift’s Satiric Prose. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
Goldgar, Bertrand A. Walpole and the Wits: The Relation of Politics to Literature, 1722–1742. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976.
Goldgar, Bertrand A. The Curse of Party: Swift’s Relations With Addison and Steele. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961.
Harth, Phillip. “Swift’s Self-Image as a Satirist.” Proceedings of the First Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift. Eds. Hermann J. Real and Heinz J. Vienken. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1985, pp. 113–21.
Higgins, Ian. Swift’s Politics: A Study in Disaffection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Views Swift as Jacobite.
Kelly, Ann Cline. Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and the Man. New York and London: Palgrave, 2002.
Kelly, Ann Cline. Swift and the English Language. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
Landa, Louis A. Swift and the Church of Ireland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954.
Leavis, F. R. “The Irony of Swift.” In Determinations. Chatto and Windus, 1934, pp. 79–108. Highly influential.
Levine, Joseph M. Dr. Woodward’s Shield: History, Science, and Satire in Augustan England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
Lock, F. P. Swift’s Tory Politics. London: Duckworth, 1983.
McMinn, Joseph. Jonathan’s Travels: Swift and Ireland. Belfast and New York: Appletree Press and St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Swift’s travels in his native land.
Mahony, Robert. Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Helpful on Swift’s reputation in Ireland.
Mullan, John. “Swift, Defoe, and Narrative Forms.” In Steven N. Zwicker (ed.) The Cambridge Companion To English Literature 1650–1740. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 250–75. Splendid comparison that illuminates both writers.
Paulson, Ronald. The Fictions of Satire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967.
Phiddian, Robert. Swift’s Parody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995.
Pollak, Ellen. The Poetics of Sexual Myth: Gender and Ideology in the Verse of Swift and Pope. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Quintana, Ricardo. Swift: An Introduction. London: Oxford University Press, 1955. Still one of the best introductions.
Quintana, Ricardo. The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift. Oxford, 1936; reprinted Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1965. Classic study.
Rogers, Pat. Hacks and Dunces: Pope, Swift, and Grub Street. London: Methuen, 1980.
Rawson, Claude. God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492–1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Rawson, Claude. Satire and Sentiment 1660–1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Rawson, Claude. Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in English Literature from Swift to Cowper. London: Allen and Unwin, 1985.
Rawson, Claude. “The Character of Swift’s Satire: Reflections on Swift, Johnson, and Human Restlessness.” In The Character of Swift’s Satire: A Revised Focus. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1983, pp. 21–82. Insightful comparison of Swift and Samuel Johnson.
Real, Hermann J. and Heinz J. Vienken . “Psychoanalytic Criticism and Swift: The History of a Failure.” Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr 1 (1986), 127–41.
Reilly, Patrick. Jonathan Swift: The Brave Desponder. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982.
Said, Edward W. “Swift’s Tory Anarchy” and “Swift As Intellectual.” In The World, The Text, and The Critic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983, pp. 54–89. A starting point for most contemporary discussions.
Steele, Peter. Jonathan Swift: Preacher and Jester. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
Wyrick, Deborah Baker. Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Collections of essays

Donoghue, Denis, ed. Jonathan Swift: A Critical Anthology. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971. Helpful selection of early responses and of twentieth-century criticism.
Douglas, Aileen, Patrick Kelly, and Ian Campbell Ross, eds. Locating Swift. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998.
Fox, Christopher and Brenda Tooley, eds. Walking Naboth’s Vineyard: New Studies of Swift. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.
Fischer, John Irwin, Hermann J. Real, and James Woolley, eds. Swift and His Contexts. New York: AMS Press, 1989.
Jeffares, A. Norman, ed. Fair Liberty Was All His Cry. London: Macmillan, 1967.
Palmeri, Frank, ed. Critical Essays on Jonathan Swift. New York: G. K. Hall, 1993.
Probyn, Clive, ed. The Art of Jonathan Swift. London: Vision Press, 1978.
Rawson, Claude, ed. The Character of Swift’s Satire: A Revised Focus. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1983.
Rawson, Claude, ed. Jonathan Swift: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995. Helpful selection of twentieth-century criticism.
Real, Hermann J. and Helgard Stöver-Leidig, eds. Reading Swift: Papers from The Third Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1998. Excellent papers by leading scholars. Also see the 1985 and 1993 volumes, eds. Hermann J. Real, et al.
Schakel, Peter J., ed. Critical Approaches to Teaching Swift. New York: AMS Press, 1992. Helpful introductory material.
Tuveson, Ernest, ed. Swift: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1964.
Vickers, Brian, ed. The World of Jonathan Swift. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968.
Wood, Nigel, ed. Jonathan Swift. London: Longman, 1999.

Poetry

Barnett, Louise K. Swift’s Poetic Worlds. Newark: Associated University Presses, 1981.
Bogel, Fredric V. “Swift’s Poems: Satire, Contamination, Authority.” In The Difference Satire Makes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001, pp. 106–31.
Conlon, Michael J. “Anonymity and Authority in the Poetry of Jonathan Swift.” In Howard D. Weinbrot, Peter J. Schakel and Stephen Karian (eds.) Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001, pp. 133–46.
Conlon, Michael J. “Singing Beside-Against: Parody and the Example of Swift’s ‘A Description of a City Shower.’” Genre 16 (1983), 219–32.
England, A. B. Energy and Order in the Poetry of Swift. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1990.
Feingold, Richard. “Swift in His Poems: The Range of His Positive Rhetoric.” In Claude Rawson (ed.) The Character of Swift’s Satire: A Revised Focus. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983, pp. 166–202.
Fischer, John Irwin. On Swift’s Poetry. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1979.
Fischer, John Irwin, Donald Mell, Jr., and David Vieth, eds. Contemporary Studies of Swift’s Poetry. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1981.
Greene, Donald. “On Swift’s ‘Scatological’ Poems.” Sewanee Review 75 (1976), 33–43.
Jaffe, Nora Crowe. The Poet Swift. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1977.
Johnson, Maurice. The Sin of Wit: Jonathan Swift as a Poet. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1950.
Karian, Stephen. “Reading the Material Text of Swift’s Verses on the Death .” SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 (2001), 515–44.
Kulisheck, Clarence L. “Swift’s Octosyllabics and the Hudibrastic Tradition.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 53 (1954), 361–68.
Mueller, Judith C. “Imperfect Enjoyment at Market Hill: Impotence, Desire, and Reform in Swift’s Poems to Lady Acheson.” English Literary History 66 (1999), 51–70.
Nussbaum, Felicity. “The ‘Sex’s Flight’: Women and Time in Swift’s Poetry.” In The Brink of All We Hate: English Satires, 1660–1750. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984, pp. 94–116.
Pollak, Ellen. “‘Things which must not be exprest’: Teaching Swift’s Scatological Poems about Women.” In Christopher Fox (ed.) Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetry. New York: AMS Press, 1990, pp. 177–86.
Rawson, Claude. “‘I the Lofty Stile Decline’: Self-apology and the ‘Heroick Strain’ in Some of Swift’s Poems.” In Robert Folkenflik (ed.) The English Hero 1660–1800. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1982, pp. 79–115.
Rawson, Claude. “The Nightmares of Strephon: Nymphs of the City in the Poems of Swift, Baudelaire, Eliot.” In Maximillian E. Novak (ed.) English Literature in the Age of Disguise. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977, pp. 57–99.
Rees, Christine. “Gay, Swift, and the Nymphs of Drury-Lane.” Essays in Criticism 23 (1973), 1–21.
Schakel, Peter J. The Poetry of Jonathan Swift: Allusion and the Development of a Poetic Style. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.

A Tale of a Tub

Adams, Robert M. “The Mood of the Church and A Tale of a Tub.” In H. T. Swedenberg, Jr. (ed.) England in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972, pp. 71–99.
Clark, John R. Form and Frenzy in Swift’s Tale of a Tub. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970.
Connery, Brian. “The Persona as Pretender and the Reader as Constitutional Subject in Swift’s Tale.” In James A. Gill (ed.) Cutting Edges: Postmodern Critical Essays on Eighteenth-Century Satire. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995, pp. 159–80.
DePorte, Michael. Nightmares and Hobbyhorses: Swift, Sterne, and Augustan Ideas of Madness. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1974.
DePorte, Michael. “Vehicles of Delusion: Swift, Locke and the Madhouse Poems of James Carkesse.” In Christopher Fox (ed.) Psychology and Literature in the Eighteenth Century. New York: AMS Press, 1987, pp. 69–86.
Levine, Jay Arnold. “The Design of A Tale of a Tub (with a Digression on the Mad Modern Critic).” English Literary History 33 (1966), 198–227.
Harth, Phillip. Swift and Anglican Rationalism: The Religious Background of A Tale of a Tub. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Hawes, Clement. “Return to Madness: Mania As Plebeian Vapors in Swift.” In Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm From the Ranters to Christopher Smart. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 101–125.
Lund, Roger D. “Strange Complicities: Atheism and Conspiracy in A Tale of a Tub .” Eighteenth-Century Life 13 (1989), 34–58.
Mueller, Judith C. “Writing Under Constraint: Swift’s ‘Apology’ for A Tale of A Tub .” English Literary History 60 (1993), 101–15.
Nash, Richard. “Entrapment and Ironic Modes in A Tale of A Tub .” Eighteenth-Century Studies 24 (1991), 415–31.
Paulson, Ronald. Theme and Structure in Swift’s Tale of a Tub. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960.
Saccamano, Neil. “Authority and Publication: The Works of ‘Swift.’” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 25 (1984), 241–62.
Seidel, Michael. Satiric Inheritance: Rabelais to Sterne. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Smith, Frederik N. Language and Reality in Swift’s “A Tale of a Tub.” Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1979.
Starkman, Miriam K. Swift’s Satire on Learning in A Tale of a Tub. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950.
Walsh, Marcus. “Text, ‘Text,’ and Swift’s Tale of a Tub .” The Modern Language Review 85 (1990), 290–303.
Zimmerman, Everett. Swift’s Narrative Satires: Author and Authority. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Gulliver’s Travels

Barchas, Janine. “Prefiguring Genre: Frontispiece Portraits from Gulliver’s Travels to Millenium Hall .” Studies in the Novel 30 (1998), 260–86.
Brady, Frank, ed. Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Gulliver’s Travels. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.
Bruce, Susan. “The Flying Island and Female Anatomy: Gynecology and Power in Gulliver’s Travels .” Genders 2 (1988), 60–76.
Carnochan, W. B. Lemuel Gulliver’s Mirror for Man. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968.
Castle, Terry. “Why the Houyhnhnms Don’t Write: Swift, Satire and the Fear of the Text.” Essays in Literature 7 (1980), 31–44.
Clifford, James L. “Gulliver’s Fourth Voyage: ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ Schools of Interpretation.” In Larry Champion (ed.) Quick Springs of Sense: Studies in the Eighteenth Century. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1974, pp. 33–49. Classic look at different ways of interpreting Book IV.
Crane, R. S. “The Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, and the History of Ideas.” In J. A. Mazzeo (ed.) Reason and Imagination: Studies in the History of Ideas, 1600–1800. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. Excellent and influential.
Doody, Margaret Anne. “Insects, Vermin, and Horses: Gulliver’s Travels and Virgil’s Georgics.” In Douglas Lane Patey and Timothy Keegan (eds.) Augustan Studies: Essays in Honor of Irvin Ehrenpreis. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1985, pp. 147–74.
Downie, J. A. “Political Characterization in Gulliver’s Travels .” Yearbook of English Studies 7 (1977), 108–20.
Downie, J. A. “The Political Significance of Gulliver’s Travels.” In John Irwin Fischer, Hermann J. Real, and James Woolley (eds.) Swift and His Contexts. New York: AMS Press, 1989, pp. 1–19.
Erskine-Hill, Howard. Gulliver’s Travels. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Excellent introduction to the work.
Fox, Christopher. “The Myth of Narcissus in Swift’s Travels .” Eighteenth-Century Studies 20 (1986–87), 17–33.
Fox, Christopher. “Of Logic and Lycanthropy: Gulliver and the Faculties of the Mind.” In Roy Porter and Marie Mulvey Roberts (eds.) Literature and Medicine during the Eighteenth Century. London: Routledge, 1993, pp. 101–17.
Hammond, Brean. Gulliver’s Travels. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1988.
Harth, Phillip. “The Problem of Political Allegory in Gulliver’s Travels .” Modern Philology 73 (1976), 540–47.
Hawes, Clement. “Three Times Round the Globe: Gulliver and Colonial Discourse.” Cultural Critique 18 (1991), 187–214.
Higgins, Ian. “Swift and Sparta: The Nostalgia of Gulliver’s Travels .” Modern Language Review 78 (1983), 513–31.
Keener, Fredrick M. The Chain of Becoming. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Excellent on Gulliver.
Lock, F. P. The Politics of Gulliver’s Travels. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
McKeon, Michael. “Parables of the Younger Son (II): Swift and the Containment of Desire.” In The Origins of the English Novel 1600–1740. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, pp. 338–56.
Mezciems, Jenny. “‘Tis not to divert the Reader’: Moral and Literary Determinants in Some Early Travel Narratives.” Prose Studies 5 (1982), 1–21. Helpful on connections to travel literature.
Mezciems, Jenny. “Utopia and ‘the Thing which is not’: More, Swift, and Other Lying Idealists.” University of Toronto Quarterly 52 (1982), 40–62.
Monk, Samuel Holt. “The Pride of Lemuel Gulliver.” Sewanee Review 63 (1955), 48–71. Influential account of the moral significance of Swift’s work.
Nicholson, Marjorie Hope and Nora M. Mohler. “The Scientific Background of Swift’s Voyage to Laputa.” In Marjorie Nicholson, Science and Imagination. Ithaca, NY: Great Seal Books, 1956, pp. 110–154.
Nussbaum, Felicity. “Gulliver’s Malice: Gender and Satiric Stance.” In Christopher Fox (ed.) Gulliver’s Travels: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. Boston and New York: Bedford Books and St. Martin’s Press, 1995, pp. 318–34.
Nuttall, A. D. “Gulliver Among the Horses.” Yearbook of English Studies 18 (1988), 51–67.
Oakleaf, David. “ Trompe l’oeil: Gulliver and the Distortions of the Observing Eye.” University of Toronto Quarterly 53 (1982), 48–59.
Patey, Douglas Lane. “Swift’s Satire on ‘Science’ and the Structure of Gulliver’s Travels .” English Literary History 58 (1991), 809–39.
Probyn, Clive T. “Haranguing upon Texts: Swift and the Idea of the Book.” In Proceedings of the First Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift. Eds. Hermann J. Real and Heinz J. Vienken. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1985, pp. 187–97.
Rawson, C. J. Gulliver and the Gentle Reader: Studies in Swift and Our Time. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. Excellent and influential.
Real, Hermann J. “Voyages to Nowhere: More’s Utopia and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.” In Stephen E. Karian, Peter J. Schakel, and Howard Weinbrot (eds.) Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001, pp. 96–113.
Rodino, Richard. “‘Splendide Mendax’: Authors, Characters and Readers in Gulliver’s Travels .” Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 106 (1991), 1054–70.
Rogers, Pat. “Gulliver’s Glasses.” In Clive T. Probyn (ed.) The Art of Jonathan Swift. London: Vision Press, 1978, pp. 179–88.
Rosenblum, Joseph. “Gulliver’s Dutch Uncle: Another Look at Swift and the Dutch.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 24 (2001), 63–75. Dutch as symbol of modernism.
Seidel, Michael. “Gulliver’s Travels and the Contracts of Fiction.” In John Richetti (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 72–89.
Smith, Frederik N., ed. The Genres of Gulliver’s Travels. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1990. Splendid essays.
Tippet, Brian. Gulliver’s Travels: An Introduction to the Variety of Criticism. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1989.
Todd, Dennis. “The Hairy Maid at the Harpsichord: Some Speculations on the Meaning of Gulliver’s Travels .” Texas Studies in Language and Literature 34 (1992), 239–83.
Traugott, John. “The Yahoo in the Doll’s House: Gulliver’s Travels the Children’s Classic.” In Claude Rawson (ed.) English Satire and the Satiric Tradition. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984, pp. 127–50.

The Drapier’s Letters, A Modest Proposal and shorter prose

Canning, Rick G. “‘Ignorant, Illiterate Creatures’: Gender and Colonial Justification in Swift’s Injured Lady and Answer to the Injured Lady .” English Literary History 64 (1997), 77–98.
Carey, Daniel. “Swift Among The Freethinkers.” Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr 12 (1997), 89–99.
Fabricant, Carole. “Speaking For the Irish Nation: The Drapier, The Bishop, and The Problems of Colonial Representation.” English Literary History 66 (1999), 337–72.
Kelly, James. “Jonathan Swift and the Irish Economy of the 1720s.” Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr 6 (1991), 7–36.
Levine, Joseph M. The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. Excellent on historical contexts of Swift’s Battel of the Books.
Lowe, N. F. “Why Swift Killed Partridge.” Swift Studies 6 (1991), 70–82.
Lund, Roger D. “Swift’s Sermons, ‘Public Conscience,’ and the Privatization of Religion.” Prose Studies 18 (1995), 150–74.
McLoughlin, T. O. “Jonathan Swift and the ‘Proud Oppressor’s Hand.’” In T. O. McLoughlin, Contesting Ireland: Irish Voices against England in the Eighteenth Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999, pp. 65–87.
Mahony, Robert. “The Irish Colonial Experience and Swift’s Rhetorics of Perception in the 1720s.” Eighteenth-Century Life 22 (1998), 63–75.
Mahony, Robert. “Protestant Dependence and Consumption in Swift’s Irish Writings.” In S. J. Connolly (ed.) Political Ideas In Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000, pp. 83–104.
Mayhew, George P. “Swift’s Bickerstaff Hoax as an April Fools’ Joke.” Modern Philology 61 (1964), 270–80.
Nolan, Emer. “Swift: The Patriot Game.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 21 (1998), 39–53. Excellent on the political languages of Swift’s Irish tracts.
Rawson, Claude. “A Reading of A Modest Proposal.” In J. C. Hilson et al. (eds.) Augustan Worlds. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1978, pp. 29–50.
Rawson, Claude. “The Injured Lady and the Drapier: A Reading of Swift’s Irish Tracts.” Prose Studies 3 (1980), 15–43.
Treadwell, J. M. “Swift, William Wood, and the Factual Basis of Satire.” Journal of British Studies 15 (1976), 76–91. Excellent context for the Drapier affair.
Wittkowsky, George. “Swift’s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet.” Journal of the History of Ideas 4 (1943), 75–104.