Jonathan Swift and the Burden of the FutureUniversity of Delaware Press, 1995 - 175 ページ "Alan Chalmers's Jonathan Swift and the Burden of the Future explores Swift's temporal apprehension in the context of the pertinent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious, scientific, and cultural debates. It also compares Swift's imaginative understanding of time with that of such other writers as Juvenal, Rabelais, Milton, Pope, Gray, and Whitman."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... . THE PROSPECT OF SCIENCE Despite Swift's clerical career , then , and his belief in Christian principles of conduct , he is in an important sense a skeptic , a " radical sceptic " as Patrick Reilly has called him 1 : INTRODUCTION 19.
... . THE PROSPECT OF SCIENCE Despite Swift's clerical career , then , and his belief in Christian principles of conduct , he is in an important sense a skeptic , a " radical sceptic " as Patrick Reilly has called him 1 : INTRODUCTION 19.
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... called man , although I hartily love John , Peter , Thomas and so forth . This is the system upon which I have governed my self many years ( but do not tell ) and so I shall go on until I have done with them . ( C III : 103 ) Even ...
... called man , although I hartily love John , Peter , Thomas and so forth . This is the system upon which I have governed my self many years ( but do not tell ) and so I shall go on until I have done with them . ( C III : 103 ) Even ...
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... called retrospectively into question by Gulliver's termi- nal disorientation at the end of part 4. The trap that his travels become to him is shut tighter by the liberties taken by others , who first persuaded him to publish , and then ...
... called retrospectively into question by Gulliver's termi- nal disorientation at the end of part 4. The trap that his travels become to him is shut tighter by the liberties taken by others , who first persuaded him to publish , and then ...
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List of Abbreviations 11 | 11 |
What Posterity Meant to Swift | 40 |
Satire and the Future | 59 |
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