Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture
Subtitle: Myth, Media, and the Man
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 4, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230602342
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary; Popular Culture - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; Biography / Autobiography
First sentence: In the 1690s, when Swift began writing, he mistakenly looked to his cousin, John Dryden, and to his employer, Sir William Temple, for guidance on how to make his mark as an author.