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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... political science could well be extended to his attitudes to other areas of " speculation " : Swift had little in common with the political theorists of his age . For political speculation needs two qualities : vision to conceive a ...
... political science could well be extended to his attitudes to other areas of " speculation " : Swift had little in common with the political theorists of his age . For political speculation needs two qualities : vision to conceive a ...
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... political strife , most notably as chief propa- gandist for the Tory government of Queen Anne's reign in The Examiner , and later as defender of the basic economic rights of the Irish , in the Drapier's Letters . In cultural matters ...
... political strife , most notably as chief propa- gandist for the Tory government of Queen Anne's reign in The Examiner , and later as defender of the basic economic rights of the Irish , in the Drapier's Letters . In cultural matters ...
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... politics can become in political times . It is unlikely that Swift realized quite how extensively contami- nated by politics his Proposal could seem to his enemies . Certainly , nothing indicates that Swift is in control of this irony ...
... politics can become in political times . It is unlikely that Swift realized quite how extensively contami- nated by politics his Proposal could seem to his enemies . Certainly , nothing indicates that Swift is in control of this irony ...
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List of Abbreviations 11 | 11 |
What Posterity Meant to Swift | 40 |
Satire and the Future | 59 |
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