Stephen Karian: Jonathan Swift in Print and Manuscript

• Paddy Bullard

Stephen Karian’s study Jonathan Swift in Print and Manuscript could not have appeared at a more timely moment for specialist Swift scholars. With new volumes in the major Cambridge University Press edition of Swift’s works currently in press, and with important publications of Swift’s correspondence and library catalogues still fresh from the warehouses of the German publisher Peter Lang, Karian’s book offers both a new methodological template for current Swift studies, and original readings of three significant late poems. But Jonathan Swift in Print and Manuscript deserves a broader readership beyond the world of Swift studies. This book points out new directions for the study of the ‘history of the book’ more broadly.