Jonathan Swift

Den Jonathan Swift, gebuer den 30. November 1667 zu Dublin, an och do den 19. Oktober 1745 gestuerwen, war en anglo-iresche Schrëftsteller a Satiriker aus der Zäit vun der fréier Opklärung.

Verschidde Publikatiounen huet hien ënner enger ganzer Rëtsch vu Pseudonyme geschriwwen: Isaac Bickerstaff, A Dissenter, A Person of Quality, A Person of Honour, M.B. Drapier, T.R.D.J.S.D.O.P.I.I. (The Reverend Doctor Jonathan Swift, Dean of Patrick's in Ireland).

1701 huet hien anonym Dissensions in Athens and Rome erausbruecht. Kuerz virdrun hat hie schonn A Tale of a Tub a The Battle of the Books geschriwwen. Nodeems en et - ouni grousse Succès - an der brittescher Politik probéiert hat, goung en hannescht an Irland wou e vu 1710 un politesch Satire geschriwwen huet, an deenen en d'Ausbeitung vun der irescher Landbevëlkerung duerch déi englesch Grondhären attackéiert huet. Déi bekanntst ass A modest proposal, an där e virschléit, Iwwerbevëlkerung, Aarmut a Kriminalität doduerch ze bekämpfen, datt iresch Puppelcher als Matière-première vun Iesswueren exportéiert sollte ginn fir sou Profit draus ze schloen.

Säi bekanntst Wierk ass awer de Roman The travels into several remote nations of the world by Lemuel Gulliver (kuerz: Gulliver's travels, 1726), eng Zort Robinsonad, an där den Haaptpersonnage, nodeems e Schëffsbroch erlidden hat, verschidden exotesch Länner besicht. Et gouf laang als Kannerbuch behandelt (an deementspriechend gekierzt), ass awer, ënner dem Mantel vun 'exoteschen' Nimm a Bräich, eng batter Satir op d'politesch a sozial Konditiounen an England.

 Wierker 
 Dissensions in Athens and Rome (1701)
 The Tale of a Tub (1704)
 The Battle of the Books (1704)
 Bickerstaff Predictions for 1708 (1707)
 The Sentiments of a Church of England Man (1708)
 Arguments Against Abolishing Christianity (1708)
 Letter upon the Sacramental Test (1708)
 Project for the Advancement of Learning (1709)
 Ancient Prophecy (1709)
 Sid Hamet's Rod (1710)
 Meditation upon a Broomstick (1710)
 Short Character of the Earl of Wharton (1710)
 The Conduct of the Allies (1711)
 The Representation of the House of Commons on the State of the Nation (1711)
 An Address of Thanks to the Queen (1711)
 Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712)
 Reflections on the Barrier Treaty (1712)
 Remarks on the Bishop of Sarum's Introduction to His Third Volume of the History of the Reformation (1712)
 Journal to Stella (1710-13)
 The Public Spirit of the Whigs (1713?)
 Free Thoughts on the State of Public Affairs
 Cadenus and Vanessa (1713)
 A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufactures, &c. (1720)
 The Drapier's Letters (1724)
 Gulliver's Travels (1726) (Gullivers Reisen)
 Miscellanies (1727)
 A short view of the state of Ireland (Dublin, Harding, 1727/1728).
 Reprint London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005. In: Leslie A. Clarkson and E. Margaret Crawford: An account of the rise, progress, and decline of the fever lately epidemical in Ireland.
 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen (1729)
 A Letter from the Grand Mistress of the Female Free-Masons to Mr. Harding, the Printer (1731?)
 The Day of Judgment (1731)
 Verses on the Death of Dr Swift (1731)
 Rhapsody of Poetry (1735?)
 The Legion Club (1736)
 Upon Sleeping in Church (posthum)
 History of the Peace of Utrecht (posthum)
 Directions to Servants (posthum)

 Literatur 
 Bibliographien 
 H. Teerink und A. H. Scouten, A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift (Philadelphia. 1963).
 R. H. Rodino, Swift Studies, 1965-1980. An Annotated Bibliography. (1984)

 Wiereditiounen 
 The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift. Eds Herbert Davis et al. 16 vols (Oxford, 1939–1968).
 The Poems of Jonathan Swift Ed. Harold Williams. 3 vols (Oxford, 1937; repr. 1958).
 The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift. Ed. Harold Williams, rev. David Woolley. 5 vols (Oxford, 1963–1972).
 The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Ed. David Woolley. In Four Volumes. 
 I: Letters 1690–1714 (nos 1-300) (Frankfurt/M. 1999, Peter Lang).
 II: Letters 1714–1726 (nos. 301-700) (Frankfurt/M. 2001, Peter Lang).
 III: Letters 1726–1734 (nos. 701-1100) (Frankfurt/M. 2003, Peter Lang).
 IV: Letters 1734–1745, (nos. 1101-1508) (Frankfurt/M. 2007, Peter Lang).
 V: Indexes (forthcoming)

 Sekundärliteratur 
 I. Ehrenpreis, Swift. The Man, His Works, and the Age. 3 vols (London, 1962–1983).
 Hermann J. Real und Heinz J. Vienken, Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels (München, 1984).
 Dirk F. Passmann und Heinz J. Vienken: The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift. A Bio-Bibliographical Handbook Part I: Swift's Library, 4 vols (Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2003). ISBN 978-3-631-41926-7
 F. P. Lock: The Politics of Gulliver's Travels. Oxford: Clarendon Press.1980. ISBN 0-19-812656-5.
Victoria Glendinning Jonathan Swift, Hutchinson 1998
 Leo Damrosch: Jonathan Swift: his life and his world, New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]: Yale Univ. Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-300-16499-2

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