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The Battle of the Books

Author: Jonathan Swift

Background details and bibliographic information

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D. Laing Purves

Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber

Funded by University College, Cork and
Writers of Ireland II Project

2. Second draft, revised and corrected.

Proof corrections by Beatrix Färber

Extent of text: 13170 words

Publication

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(2008) (2010)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E700001-012

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Sources

    Editions and Secondary Literature
  1. An excellent bibliography covering many aspects of Jonathan Swift's Life, his writings, and criticism, compiled by Lee Jaffe, is available at http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/bib/index.html.
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  3. William Wotton, Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning (1694; 2d enlarged ed. 1697; 3d enlarged ed. 1705).
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  54. For the controversy of the Ancients v. Moderns between Temple and Bentley see Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21) online at http://www.bartleby.com/219/1510.html
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. D. Laing Purves, The Battle of the Books in The works of Jonathan Swift D. D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. Carefully selected: with a biography of the author, by D. Laing Purves; and original and authentic notes, Ed. D. Laing Purves. , Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo & Co. (1880) page 98–109

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CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

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The text covers pages 98–109.

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Correction

The text has been proof-read once.

Normalization

The electronic text represents the edited text; with modernised spelling. The author's practice of capitalizing certain words, or writing them entirely in uppercase was abandoned. The editor has also modernised punctuation and, in one instance, omitted parts of the text due to strong language. These have been filled in from a 1750 edition and are marked sup resp="JS". The editor's notes are tagged note type="auth" n=""; and where he occasionally makes reference to footnotes outside the scope of the scanned text, the substance of these is given in square brackets.

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Profile Description

Created: By Jonathan Swift (1697)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The whole text is in English.
Language: [FR] A few words are in French.
Language: [LA] Some text is in Latin.

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