The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers

The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers

Jonathan Swift

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2021
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Literatura: historia y crítica
ISBN:
9789354940231
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A sharp, mischievous spark from the dawn of modern media. The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers invites you to see how prophecy, hoax, and hammering wit can shape a culture’s reality.This meticulously restored edition gathers a celebrated, slyly incisive body of work that sits at the crossroads of literary hoax satire and public opinion critique. Swift’s early eighteenth century world is rendered with a dry, disarming humour that feels at once ancient and startlingly relevant. The collection moves from blackly comic prophecies to a wry meditation on how rumours travel, how reputations are built, and how readers become participants in a shared joke. It is more than a satire; it is a document of the british satire milieu, a masterclass in media manipulation satire and prophetic hoax satire, and a delightful, deceptively modern study of how ideas travel.For casual readers and classic-literature collectors alike, this is a classics study edition that reads with the energy of a contemporary anthology for readers and an indispensable academic study guide for scholars. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint-a collector’s item and a cultural treasure, a pivotal touchstone in eighteenth century setting and literary history.

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