2. Autres textes primaires utilisés (ordre chronologique)

1. The Bible. Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha. Eds. Robert Carroll and Stephen Prickett. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997. lxxiv + 445 pp.
2. Aristote, Rhétorique. Texte établi et traduit par Médéric Dufour et André Wartelle. Collection Tel. Paris: Gallimard, 1991. 297 pp.
3. Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan (1651). Ed. C. B. Macpherson. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1968. 729pp.
4. Patrick, Simon, A Brief Account of the New Sect of Latitude-Men (1662). T. A. Birrell ed. Los Angeles: U of California P, 1963. vi + 24 pp.
5. Glanvill, Joseph. An Essay Concerning Preaching. London: by A. C. for H. Brome, 1678. 98 pp.
6. Wilkins, John, D. D. Ecclesiastes; or, A Discourse Concerning the Gift of Preaching. London: Printed by A. M. and R. R. for Edw. Gellibrand, 1678. 204 pp.
7. Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). Ed. Roger Woolhouse. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997. xxvii + 785 pp.
8. The Tatler. In The British Essayists. Ed. Robert Lynam. 3 vols. London: J. F. Dove, 1827.
9. The Spectator (1711-1713, 1714]. Ed. Donald Bond. 5 vols. Oxford : Clarendon Press (1965), 1988. cxiii + 512, vi + 600, vi + 600, vi + 598, vi + 500 pp.
10. Shaftesbury. Charcteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, etc. (1711). Ed. John M. Robertson. 2 vols. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, (1900), 1963. li + 338 ; viii + 375.
11. Sprat, Thomas, D. D. Sermons Preached on Several Occasions. London: Printed for R Bonvicke, J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, B. Tooke, J. Ward, and E. Nutt, 1722. 440 pp.
12. Smedley, Jonathan. Gulliveriana: or, A Fourth Volume of Miscellanies. London: printed for J. Roberts, 1728. xliv + 344 pp.
13. Fielding, Henry. The History and Adventures of Joseph Andrews (1742). Ed. Douglas Brooks. London: Oxford UP (1970), 1999. 410pp.
14. Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones (1749). Ed. John Bender & Simon Stern. Oxford UP, 1996.
15. Boyle, John, Earl of Orrery. Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift. Dublin: printed by George Faulkner, 1752. 339 pp.
16. Sterne, Laurence. The Works of Laurence Sterne. 5 vols. Vol. 4: The Sermons. Ed. Melvyn New. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1996. 424 pp.
17. Melwyn New, ed. Notes to the Sermons. Vol. 5 of The Works of Laurence Sterne. Loc. cit., 1996. xxvi + 512 pp.
18. Delany, Patrick. Observations Upon Lord Orrery’s Remarks (1754). New York: Garland, 1974. [Facsimile reprint of the edition printed by W. Reeve, London, 1754.] 310 pp.
19. Sheridan, Dr. Thomas. The Life of Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift. London: Printed for J. Johnson et al., 1801. 540 pp.
20. Mason, William Mack. History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, near Dublin. Dublin: printed for the author, 1820. ix + 478 + xcvii pp.
21. Spence, Joseph. The Sayings of Jonathan Swift. [From Spence’s Anecdotes, 1820.] London: Duckworth, 1994. 64 pp.
22. Thackeray, W. M. "Swift." The English Humourists of the Eigtheenth Century (1853). In The English Humourists of the Eightheenth Century and the Four Georges. Everyman’s Library. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. (1912), 1949. 3-46.
23. Williams, Kathleen, ed. Swift: the Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970. ix + 348 pp.