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Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,434
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Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing (Hardcover)

G. Atkins

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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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Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 2012
First published: 2013
Authors: G. Atkins
Dimensions: 223 x 146 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Laminated cover
Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-31162-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN: 1-137-31162-2
Barcode: 9781137311627

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