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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... suggests a belief that that the future can be reached and even shaped by efforts that of necessity are rooted in the ephemeral world of politics . However , Swift's aspirations to transcend current factionalism with this project are in ...
... suggests a belief that that the future can be reached and even shaped by efforts that of necessity are rooted in the ephemeral world of politics . However , Swift's aspirations to transcend current factionalism with this project are in ...
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... suggests that " perhaps we would do best to speak of the anticipa- tion of retrospection as our chief tool in making sense of narrative , the master trope of its strange logic " ( 23 ) . The readers of Gulliver's Travels find their ...
... suggests that " perhaps we would do best to speak of the anticipa- tion of retrospection as our chief tool in making sense of narrative , the master trope of its strange logic " ( 23 ) . The readers of Gulliver's Travels find their ...
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... suggests both that Swift possessed Stella by these means , and that he was himself possessed by sober , well- regulated emotion , and none of the more heady kind evinced by " killing eyes , or bleeding hearts . " But at least Stella is ...
... suggests both that Swift possessed Stella by these means , and that he was himself possessed by sober , well- regulated emotion , and none of the more heady kind evinced by " killing eyes , or bleeding hearts . " But at least Stella is ...
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List of Abbreviations 11 | 11 |
What Posterity Meant to Swift | 40 |
Satire and the Future | 59 |
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