Swift's satires on modernism : battlegrounds of reading and writing
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Swift's satires on modernism : battlegrounds of reading and writing
（Palgrave pivot）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Available at 1 libraries
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Bibliography: p. 96-99
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift's writing remains striking and relevant. In this engaging study, Atkins brings forty-plus years of critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written, revealing new contexts for understanding post-Reformation reading practices and the development of the modern personal essay.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Spider and the Bee: Ancients vs. Moderns and the Battle of the Books 1. The World Swift Saw Aborning 2. The Priesthood of All Readers:'This good had full as bad a Consequence' 3. Swift and the Modern Personal Essay: A Tale of a Tub and 'A Modest Proposal' 4. Tripping and Troping , Inside and Out:Surface, Depth, and the 'Converting Imagination' in A Tale of a Tub 5. 'The Physical Act of Worship, not the Mental Act of Belief or Assent': Reading An Argument against Abolishing Christianity
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