a study in disaffection Higgins, Ian. creator text New York Cambridge University Press 2006 monographic xiii, 232 p. Ian 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. Ian Higgins. Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Warwick, 1989. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-226) and index. Politics and literature Great Britain History Satire, English History and criticism Conservatives in literature 828.509 HIG-S 9780521025683 (pbk.) 0521025680 (pbk.) 9780521418140 (hardback) 0521418143 (hardback)