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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