Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture Myth, Media and the Man

ANN CLINE KELLY has been writing on Jonathan Swift for thirty years. She is Professor of English at Howard University, and is author of Swift and the English Language (U. Penn). She also appeared in a recent documentary on Gulliver's Travels broadcast by The Discovery Channel/The Learning Channel as part of their Great Books Series.

'Kelly's literate and enjoyable style makes her work accessible and interesting to undergraduates and specialists alike.' - Choice 'Kelly's is a provocative but a very convincing thesis, the more attractive for its freedom from academic jargon. She has clearly profited from later twentieth-century critical theory, but is very effective in the use she makes of older insights from psychological and folklore commentators; and both her command of the demotic ephemera of Swift's day and of the bye-ways of anglophone popular culture in the two and a half centuries since his death are exemplary of Swift scholarship at its finest, of a sort we have rarely seen for decades.' - Robert Mahoney, Irish Studies Review

• Introduction Trial and Error: 1690-1711 The Master of Surprises: 1711-1728 Intimations of Immortality: 1729-45 Unconventional Sex, Love, and Marriage: Swift as Liberated Lover Punishment for Nonconformity: The Tragic Swift Rude, Nasty, Obscene: Swift as the Comic Imp of the Perverse The Devil Made a Saint: Swift as Epic Hero Epilogue: Life Ever-Lasting?