Swift's satires on modernism : battlegrounds of reading and writing

著者

• Atkins, G. Douglas (George Douglas)

書誌事項

Swift's satires on modernism : battlegrounds of reading and writing

G. Douglas Atkins

（Palgrave pivot）

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

注記

Bibliography: p. 96-99

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB12489769
• ISBN:
  • 9781137311627
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: vii, 103 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Swift, Jonathan, -- 1667-1745 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Satire, English -- History and criticism
• 親書誌ID:
  • BB1163475X