Valerie Rumbold is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is author of Women's Place in Pope's World (1989) and has edited Pope's Dunciads (1999, 2007) and Swift's Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises (2013). She is a General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift and of the Oxford Edition of the Writings of Alexander Pope.

• Part I. Beginnings: 1. First Impressions: Dublin and London to 1699; Part II. London: 2. The Shock of the Normal: From Temple to the Tale (1693–1705); 3. Material Voices: the Bickerstaff Effect (1705–1710); 4. Politics and Permanence: Miscellanies, Politics and a Proposal Declined (1710–1714); Part III. Dublin: 5. The Irish Patriot in Print (1720–1725); 6. Delegating in London, Recouping in Dublin: Travels, Miscellanies, the Intelligencer and A Modest Proposal (1726–1729); 7. The Works of J. S, D. D, D. S. P. D. (1731–1735); Part IV. Into the Future: 8. Ending and Going on (1736–1765).

'… virtuosic … an expert work with wide audience appeal, offering insights for seasoned Swift scholars and book historians, as well as for new readers and students of the fields.' Danielle Spratt, The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cat

Valerie Rumbold is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is author of Women's Place in Pope's World (1989) and has edited Pope's Dunciads (1999, 2007) and Swift's Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises (2013). She is a General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift and of the Oxford Edition of the Writings of Alexander Pope.

• Part I. Beginnings: 1. First Impressions: Dublin and London to 1699; Part II. London: 2. The Shock of the Normal: From Temple to the Tale (1693–1705); 3. Material Voices: the Bickerstaff Effect (1705–1710); 4. Politics and Permanence: Miscellanies, Politics and a Proposal Declined (1710–1714); Part III. Dublin: 5. The Irish Patriot in Print (1720–1725); 6. Delegating in London, Recouping in Dublin: Travels, Miscellanies, the Intelligencer and A Modest Proposal (1726–1729); 7. The Works of J. S, D. D, D. S. P. D. (1731–1735); Part IV. Into the Future: 8. Ending and Going on (1736–1765).

'… virtuosic … an expert work with wide audience appeal, offering insights for seasoned Swift scholars and book historians, as well as for new readers and students of the fields.' Danielle Spratt, The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cat

Valerie Rumbold is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is author of Women's Place in Pope's World (1989) and has edited Pope's Dunciads (1999, 2007) and Swift's Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises (2013). She is a General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift and of the Oxford Edition of the Writings of Alexander Pope.

• Part I. Beginnings: 1. First Impressions: Dublin and London to 1699; Part II. London: 2. The Shock of the Normal: From Temple to the Tale (1693–1705); 3. Material Voices: the Bickerstaff Effect (1705–1710); 4. Politics and Permanence: Miscellanies, Politics and a Proposal Declined (1710–1714); Part III. Dublin: 5. The Irish Patriot in Print (1720–1725); 6. Delegating in London, Recouping in Dublin: Travels, Miscellanies, the Intelligencer and A Modest Proposal (1726–1729); 7. The Works of J. S, D. D, D. S. P. D. (1731–1735); Part IV. Into the Future: 8. Ending and Going on (1736–1765).

'… virtuosic … an expert work with wide audience appeal, offering insights for seasoned Swift scholars and book historians, as well as for new readers and students of the fields.' Danielle Spratt, The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cat