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Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises : Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants and other works /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Other Authors: Rumbold, Valerie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Works. 2008 ; 2.
Subjects:
Satire, English.
Table of Contents:
  • A meditation upon a broom-stick
  • A tritical essay upon the faculties of the mind
  • Predictions for the year 1708
  • The accomplishment of the first of Mr. Bickerstaff's predictions
  • A vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.
  • A famous prediction of Merlin, the British wizard
  • Tatler no. 230
  • Harrison's Tatler no. 5
  • Harrison's Tatler no. 20
  • A proposal for correcting, improving and ascertaining the English tongue
  • A modest defence of punning
  • Hints towards an essay conversation
  • On good-manners and good-breeding
  • Hints on good manners
  • The last speech and dying words of Ebenezer Ellison
  • Of the education of ladies
  • A history of poetry
  • A discourse to prove the antiquity of the English tongue
  • On barbarous denominations in Ireland
  • Polite conversation
  • Directions to servants
  • Associated materials
  • Appendices.