Format:
VII, 103 Seiten
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781137311627
Series Statement:
Palgrave Pivot
Content:
"More than three centuries since their first publication, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, 'The Battle of the Books,' 'The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit,' and An Argument against Abolishing Christianity remain striking, prescient, and still-relevant challenges to Modern commitments to inwardness, reflection, and spiritualism. In this lively and engaging study - grounded in the intellectual and historical currents of Swift's time, with an eye on the implications for the present day - G. Douglas Atkins brings forty-plus years of scholarly and critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written. The study reveals new contexts for understanding Swift's satires, including post-Reformation reading practices and the development of the modern personal essay. This book revisits, from fresh perspectives, the late seventeenth-century version of the perennial warfare between Ancients and Moderns, then often instanced as 'the battle of the books.'"--Publisher's website
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 96 - 99
,
Introduction: The Spider and the Bee: Ancients vs. Moderns and the Battle of the BooksThe World Swift Saw Aborning -- The Priesthood of All Readers:'This good had full as bad a Consequence' -- Swift and the Modern Personal Essay: A Tale of a Tub and 'A Modest Proposal' -- Tripping and Troping , Inside and Out:Surface, Depth, and the 'Converting Imagination' in A Tale of a Tub -- 'The Physical Act of Worship, not the Mental Act of Belief or Assent': Reading An Argument against Abolishing Christianity.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137311047
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137321558
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745
;
Satire
