Swift’s Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing [electronic resource] /
Atkins, G.author.
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.
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""Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface              ""; ""Introductionâ€?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: â€œThis Good Had Full as Bad a Consequenceâ€?                                                                                 ""
""3 Swift and the Modern Personal Essay: A Tale of a Tub and â€œA Modest Proposalâ€?                                                                                     """"4 Tripping and Troping, Inside and Out: Surface, Depth, and the â€œConverting Imaginationâ€? in A Tale of a Tub                                                                                                                  ""
""5 â€œThe Physical Act of Worship, Not the Mental Act of Belief or Assentâ€?: Reading An Argument against Abolishing Christianity                                                                                                                                   """"Bibliography                   ""; ""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
British literature.
Christianity.
Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
British and Irish Literature.
Christianity.
Philosophy, general.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Literary History.