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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... human race will give the issue ; such an issue , it may be , as in the present condition of things and men's minds cannot easily be conceived or imagined . ( 88 ) Time has proven that Bacon was fully justified in the sense he expresses ...
... human race will give the issue ; such an issue , it may be , as in the present condition of things and men's minds cannot easily be conceived or imagined . ( 88 ) Time has proven that Bacon was fully justified in the sense he expresses ...
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... human society is belittled , viewed from above like " little odious vermin , " seas waded across , the fortunes of cities changed ( by his own intervention ) ; in Brobdingnag , the human animal is viewed up close , as through a ...
... human society is belittled , viewed from above like " little odious vermin , " seas waded across , the fortunes of cities changed ( by his own intervention ) ; in Brobdingnag , the human animal is viewed up close , as through a ...
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... human in the eyes of their society : being looked on " as dead in Law , " after they have reached eighty years old , “ their Heirs immediately succeed to their Estates , " and all citizens ' rights are denied them . They are in fact ...
... human in the eyes of their society : being looked on " as dead in Law , " after they have reached eighty years old , “ their Heirs immediately succeed to their Estates , " and all citizens ' rights are denied them . They 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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