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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... death ; it is audible behind the Houyhnhnms , whose imper- turbability in the face of death impresses Gulliver . In this mood Swift espouses the reasonable acceptance of time's passage , ex- pressed in verse by his friend John Gay ...
... death ; it is audible behind the Houyhnhnms , whose imper- turbability in the face of death impresses Gulliver . In this mood Swift espouses the reasonable acceptance of time's passage , ex- pressed in verse by his friend John Gay ...
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... death . What John Donne once remarked of religious retirement applies equally to Swift's authorial retire- ment : that it is a sort of allegory of death . 15 It is by means of this authorial retirement that Swift insists upon being ...
... death . What John Donne once remarked of religious retirement applies equally to Swift's authorial retire- ment : that it is a sort of allegory of death . 15 It is by means of this authorial retirement that Swift insists upon being ...
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... death . It subsequently has taken on many attributes of a uchronia or alternate history to the extent that its readers must wonder how actual responses to Swift's death corresponded to the fictional responses in the poem.28 By ...
... death . It subsequently has taken on many attributes of a uchronia or alternate history to the extent that its readers must wonder how actual responses to Swift's death corresponded to the fictional responses in the poem.28 By ...
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List of Abbreviations 11 | 11 |
What Posterity Meant to Swift | 40 |
Satire and the Future | 59 |
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