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Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing (Hardcover)
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Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing (Hardcover)
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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
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