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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... CULTURAL SHIFTS A frequent defender of the past , Swift is seen sometimes as a belated figure , always looking over his shoulder , writing in a style that suggests the seventeenth rather than eighteenth century , combatively reviving ...
... CULTURAL SHIFTS A frequent defender of the past , Swift is seen sometimes as a belated figure , always looking over his shoulder , writing in a style that suggests the seventeenth rather than eighteenth century , combatively reviving ...
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... cultural currents of his day . Born into what we now refer to as the early modern period , Swift looks ahead with an often intuitive sense of the major cultural shifts underway around him , and his writing frequently embodies his ...
... cultural currents of his day . Born into what we now refer to as the early modern period , Swift looks ahead with an often intuitive sense of the major cultural shifts underway around him , and his writing frequently embodies his ...
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... cultural endurance and decay , finds in the Struldbruggs persons for whom posterity should be an inte- gral part of their being , something they should serenely tend and oversee . Yet these personifications of posterity are in fact ...
... cultural endurance and decay , finds in the Struldbruggs persons for whom posterity should be an inte- gral part of their being , something they should serenely tend and oversee . Yet these personifications of posterity are in fact ...
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List of Abbreviations 11 | 11 |
What Posterity Meant to Swift | 40 |
Satire and the Future | 59 |
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