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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... reason ; and with his own reason the ultimate factor in judgments , man became in this sense a morally autonomous being . As the eighteenth century progressed , moral thought acquired an inherently more utilitarian caste : human ac ...
... reason ; and with his own reason the ultimate factor in judgments , man became in this sense a morally autonomous being . As the eighteenth century progressed , moral thought acquired an inherently more utilitarian caste : human ac ...
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... reason . The other is , the love of life , which from the dictates of reason , every man would despise , and wish it at an end , or that it never had a beginning . ( PW IX : 263 ) • Here is the Swift with whom posterity has become more ...
... reason . The other is , the love of life , which from the dictates of reason , every man would despise , and wish it at an end , or that it never had a beginning . ( PW IX : 263 ) • Here is the Swift with whom posterity has become more ...
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... Reason , with great Propriety of Speech , did usually call their Bodies , their Vessels . When , by these and the like Performances , they were grown sufficiently replete , they would immediately depart , and dis- embogue for the Public ...
... Reason , with great Propriety of Speech , did usually call their Bodies , their Vessels . When , by these and the like Performances , they were grown sufficiently replete , they would immediately depart , and dis- embogue for the Public ...
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List of Abbreviations 11 | 11 |
What Posterity Meant to Swift | 40 |
Satire and the Future | 59 |
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