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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... literary friends , who had to make a place for their writings in the expanding and increasingly overrun world of letters . This " great industry of the written " which expanded dur- ing the late seventeenth and early eighteenth ...
... literary friends , who had to make a place for their writings in the expanding and increasingly overrun world of letters . This " great industry of the written " which expanded dur- ing the late seventeenth and early eighteenth ...
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... literary cre- dentials are manifestly wanting ; yet he is strongly desirous of lasting literary renown - a desire evident in his " Dedication to Prince Posterity , " where the absurd discrepancy between ability and aspiration is fully ...
... literary cre- dentials are manifestly wanting ; yet he is strongly desirous of lasting literary renown - a desire evident in his " Dedication to Prince Posterity , " where the absurd discrepancy between ability and aspiration is fully ...
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... literary satire that the question of the author's presence or absence in the work becomes pressing , since literature is by definition disembodied and signi- fies absence . 23 The most fully realized of Pope's and Swift's satires ...
... literary satire that the question of the author's presence or absence in the work becomes pressing , since literature is by definition disembodied and signi- fies absence . 23 The most fully realized of Pope's and Swift's satires ...
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List of Abbreviations 11 | 11 |
What Posterity Meant to Swift | 40 |
Satire and the Future | 59 |
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