Jonathan Swift and the burden of the future
By: Alan D. Chalmers.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Political and social views.; Future in literature.; Literature and society -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.; Satire, English -- History and criticism.; Social problems in literature.; Prophecies in literature.; Utopias in literature.; Fear in literature.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-171) and index.
"Began as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Southern California"--P. 11.