01049pam a2200205 a 4500020002500000020002200025020002900047020002600076082001900102100001800121245006400139260005100203300001700254500007400271504006400345520030500409650005200714650004400766650003300810  a9780521025683 (pbk.)  a0521025680 (pbk.)  a9780521418140 (hardback)  a0521418143 (hardback)  a828.509bHIG-S1 aHiggins, Ian.10aSwift's politics :ba study in disaffection /cIan Higgins.  aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c2006.  axiii, 232 p.  aBased on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Warwick, 1989.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-226) and index.  aIan Higgins' contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing concentrates on the partisan meanings of the great satires A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels, and represents Swift (as he was read by his contemporaries) as a disaffected High Church Anglican extremist with Jacobite inclinations. 0aPolitics and literaturezGreat BritainxHistory 0aSatire, EnglishxHistory and criticism. 0aConservatives in literature.