Title: Jonathan Swift and the burden of the future
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: English Satire, Fear in literature, Future in literature, History, History and criticism, Literature and society, Political and social views, Prophecies in literature, Satire, English, Social problems in literature, Utopias in literature, Future, The, in literature, Swift, jonathan, 1667-1745, Satire, english, history and criticism
Places: Ireland
People: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: PR3728.F87 C43 1995