Daniel Cook

The pride o' a' our Scottish plain; Thou gi'es us joy to hear thy strain, (Janet Little, 'An Epistle to Mr Robert Burns') The 18th century saw Scotland become one of the leading international centres of literature, philosophy, and publishing and yet still retain its lively oral tradition of ballads and poetry. Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830 edited by Daniel Cook contains over 200 poems and songs written in Scots, English, and Gaelic which reflect this vibrant period of literary flourishing. The collection places Burns, Scott, and other major writers alongside lesser known or even entirely forgotten figures. Gaelic poets feature in their original language and in translation, along with many important long poems in their entirety. Lairds and ladies jostle with labouring-class writers, satirists with sentimentalists, Gaelic bards with Gothic balladists, rural singers with urbanite odists, and together they reveal the unrivalled range of Scottish poetry. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830

Annika Bautz

Kerry Sinanan

Austen After 200 explores our contemporary relationship with Jane Austen in the wake of the bicentenaries of her death and the first publication of her novels. The volume begins by looking at Austen’s popular appeal and at how she is consumed today in diverse cultural venues such the digisphere, blogosphere, festivals and book clubs. It then offers new approaches to the novels within various critical contexts, including adaptation studies, fan fiction, intertextuality, and more. Collecting these new essays in one volume enables a unique view of the crossovers and divergences in engagements with Austen in different settings, and will help a comparative approach between the popular and the academic to emerge more fully in Austen studies. The book gathers insights from a range of contributors invested in new reading spaces in order to show the creative ways in which we are all adapting as we continue to read Austen’s works.

New Reading Spaces

Austen After 200

Contemporaries were mesmerized by the outrageous wit of Jonathan Swift (1667âe"1745), a writer still widely regarded as the greatest satirist of all time. Soon after Swiftâe(tm)s death, his friends and enemies raced to publish the definitive account of the Dean of St Patrickâe(tm)s. Now, Routledge brings these major works together for the first time in a new, three-volume, facsimile collection, supplemented with a full introduction, bibliographies, and other textual apparatus. The collectionâe(tm)s editor avers that these highly influential biographies of one of the leading literary figures of his generation remain incompletely understood. The persistence of a number of myths can be traced back to these studies of Swift, including his own pseudo-biographical fragment on his early life. It is crucial that many of these biographies were written or commissioned by friends and allies of Swift and that some were writtenâe"or were informed byâe"his enemies. The collectionâe(tm)s editor makes clear that the lives of Swift have a strongly interdependent relationship and, by bringing these studies together in one easy-to-use reference resource, scholars will more readily be able to trace the perambulations of specific anecdotes and biographical readings, and better understand how Johnsonâe(tm)s defining picture of Swift emerged. Volume I of the collection opens with an extended introductory account of the history of biographies and biographical criticism of Swift in the eighteenth century and beyond. The volume reproduces Lord Orreryâe(tm)s notorious âe~Judas-biographyâe(tm), the Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Jonathan Swift (1752), and a little-known book-length response, A Letter from a Gentleman in the Country, to his Son in the College of Dublin (1752âe"3), and, finally, the entry on Swift in Cibberâe(tm)s multivolume collection The Lives of the Poets (1753). The second volume includes the largely overlooked Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift, DD (1752), a freely adapted plagiarism of Orreryâe(tm)s Remarks, and Patrick Delanyâe(tm)s well-known Observations upon Lord Orreryâe(tm)s âe~Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Jonathan Swiftâe(tm) (1754). This volume also contains the biographical essay from John Hawkesworthâe(tm)s Works of Jonathan Swift, DD, Dean of St Patrickâe(tm)s, Dublin (1755), and the undervalued Life of Jonathan Swift by the lesser-known biographer W. H. Dilworth. (Although it is largely unexamined by modern scholars, his influence on contemporary Swift studies merits renewed attention.) The final volume in the collection, meanwhile, comprises Deane Swiftâe(tm)s seminal Essay upon the Life, Writings, and Character of Dr Jonathan Swift (1755), which includes Jonathan Swiftâe(tm)s own fragmentary âe~Family of Swiftâe(tm) (c. 1727), and Patrick Delanyâe(tm)s cantankerous response, A Letter to Dean Swift, Esq (1755). The collection ends with full textual apparatus, including contemporary reviews of, and responses to, the competing lives of Jonathan Swift. The Lives of Jonathan Swift provides a full and fascinating picture of eighteenth-century attitudes to one of the great figures of the age. It will be welcomed by Swift scholars and students, as well as those more broadly interested in the art and function of literary biography. âe"âe"âe"âe" Âµ âe"âe"âe"âe" Routledge facsimile collections make key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of literary studies, as well as those working in allied and related fields. Selected and introduced by expert editors, the gathered materials are reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination.

The Lives of Jonathan Swift

Cook

Nicholas Seager

Explores the adaptation and appropriation of a range of canonical and lesser-known British and Irish novels of the eighteenth century.

The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction

This book explicates Jonathan Swift's poetry, reaffirming its prominence in competing literary traditions.

Daniel Cook

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