Preliminary Material / Hermann J. Real -- Preface / Hermann J. Real -- Reforming Mankind: Lemuel Gulliver, Constantia Grierson, and the Limits of Source Studies / A. C. Elias Jr -- Postmodernizing Swift / Melinda Alliker Rabb -- Who Was Podefar? Swift in the Journal to Stella / W. B. Carnochan -- Contemporary Writings in Answer to Orrery’s Remarks on Swift / João Fróes -- Revising Teerink: A Critique with Notes towards a Revised Descriptive Bibliography of Swift / James E. May -- Edmund Curll and the Circulation of Swift’sWritings1 / Stephen Karian -- The Failure of the Swift-Pope Miscellanies (1727–32) and The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift (1733) / James McLaverty -- Telling Tales and Gathering Fragments: Swift’s Tale of a Tub / Marcus Walsh -- Madness at Tub Time: Swift Writing Insanity / Allan Ingram -- New Science in the Composition of A Tale of a Tub / Frank T. Boyle -- Swift and History / S. J. Connolly -- An Argument against Abolishing Christianity and its Contexts / Ian Higgins -- Swift’s Thirtieth of January Sermon: Politics, the Pulpit, and the Choice of Strife / Howard D. Weinbrot -- John Lyon and Irish Antiquarianism in the Time of Swift / Toby Barnard -- Locating Swift’s Parody: The Title of Polite Conversation / Valerie Rumbold -- Swift’s Early Odes: The Unreadable in Search of the Unspeakable / Clive T. Probyn -- “In pity to the empty’ng Town”: Who’sWho, Where’sWhat? And Who’s the Poet? / John Irwin Fischer -- Swift’s “Skinnibonia”: A New Poem from Lady Acheson’s Manuscript / James Woolley -- The Intellectual History of “Self-Love” and Verses on the Death of Dr Swift / Dirk F. Passmann and Hermann J. Real -- The Prosecution of Power: Swift’s Defence of Ireland / Joseph McMinn -- Anything But Human: Gods, Beasts, and Demons in Swift’s Poems on William Wood / Sabine Baltes -- Swift and Ireland’s Revenue: The Public-Finance Context of Irish Economic Pamphleteering / Sean Moore -- Scaling Greatness in Gulliver’s Travels / Clement Hawes -- Gulliver, Metamorphosis, Gods, Demigods, and Heroes / Serge Soupel -- Swift’s Unmoralized Ovid: Baucis and Philemon and Book Four of Gulliver’s Travels / Ann Cline Kelly -- Gulliver’s Fourth Voyage and Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding / J. A. Downie -- “Some Private Edition of his Works”: Frances Burney and Swift / Peter Sabor -- Sybil Le Brocquy’s A View on Vanessa: An Exercise in Historiographical Meta-Drama / Sabine Wendel -- “Inverted Sublime”: Humorism in the Nineteenth-Century Italian Reception of Swift and Sterne / Flavio Gregori -- Hungarian Gulliveriads: Gulliver’s Travels in Faremidó, Capillária, and Kazohinia / Gabriella Hartvig -- On Swift in his Madhouse and Pregnant Queens: The Creative Reception of Dean Swift in (Soviet-)Russian Plays and Narrative Prose / Michael Düring -- Contributors / Hermann J. Real -- Index / Hermann J. Real.

Containing thirty-one lectures deliv-ered at the Fifth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift in May 2006, this volume testifies to the broad spectrum of research interests in the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, and his work. The essays have been grouped in nine sections: theoretical approaches (A. C. Elias, Jr, Melinda Rabb); bio-graphical problems (W. B. Carno-chan, João Fróes); bibliographical and textual studies (James E. May, Stephen Karian, James McLaverty); A Tale of a Tub (Marcus Walsh, Allan Ingram, Frank T. Boyle); historical, religious, and political issues (Sean Connolly, Ian Higgins, Howard D. Weinbrot, Toby C. Barnard, Valerie Rumbold); poetry (Clive T. Probyn, John Irwin Fischer, Dirk F. Passmann and Hermann J. Real; James Wool-ley); Swift and Ireland (Joseph McMinn, Sabine Baltes, Sean Moore); Gulliver’s Travels (Ann C. Kelly, Serge Soupel, Clement Hawes, J. A. Downie); and Reception and Adapta-tion (Peter Sabor, Sabine Wendel, Flavio Gregory, Gabriella Hartvig, Michael Düring).

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