Order from Confusion Sprung

Claude Rawson is the author of several books on Swift, Fielding and other eighteenth-century authors, and of numerous articles and reviews both in specialist journals and in the Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review and London Review of Books. He is General Editor of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, the Blackwell Critical Biographies and the Unwin Critical Library.

• Preface Acknowledgments Texts and Editions Used Part I: Swift 1. The Characters of Swift’s Satire: Reflections on Swift, Johnson, and Human Restlessness 2. Gulliver’s Travels and Some Modern Fictions 3. A Reading of A Modest Proposal Part II: Swift, Pope and Augustan Verse Satire 4. Swifts Poems 5. Slaughtering Satire 6. Pope’s Waste Land: Reflections on Mock-Heroic 7. Pope’s ‘Opus Magnum’ and An Essay on Man 8. ‘Neo-classic’ and ‘Augustan’ Part III: Fielding 9. Dialogue and Authorial Presence in Fielding’s Novels and Plays 10. A Journal From This World to the Next 11. Empson’s Tom Jones Part IV: Others 12. Notes on ‘Delicacy’ 13. π -ious Boswell 14. William Cowper and Christopher Smart Part V: Appendix 15. More Providence than Wit: Some Recent Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Literature Index