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Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book
examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed
together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about
personhood-what constitutes a self-have changed over time, so too
have ideas about how to represent, shape, or invade the self. The
authors show that, since the Renaissance, changes in observation
strategies have driven innovations in literature; literature, in
turn, has provided a laboratory and forum for the way we think
about surveillance and privacy. Ultimately, they contend that the
habits of mind cultivated by literature make rational and
self-aware participation in contemporary surveillance environments
possible. In a society increasingly dominated by interlocking
surveillance systems, these habits of mind are consequently
necessary for fully realized liberal citizenship.
As the greatest satirist in the English language, Jonathan Swift
was both admired and feared in his own time for the power of his
writing, and hugely influential on writers who followed him. Swift
transformed models such as utopian writing, political
pamphleteering and social critique with his dark and uncompromising
vision of the human condition, deepening the outlook of
contemporaries such as Alexander Pope, and leaving a legacy of
Swiftian satire in the work of Hogarth, Fielding, Austen and
Beckett, among others. This collection of essays, with its
distinguished list of international contributors, centres on Swift,
the genres and authors who influenced him, and his impact on satire
and satirists from his own time to the twentieth century.
As the greatest satirist in the English language, Jonathan Swift
was both admired and feared in his own time for the power of his
writing, and hugely influential on writers who followed him. Swift
transformed models such as utopian writing, political
pamphleteering, and social critique with his dark and
uncompromising vision of the human condition, deepening the outlook
of contemporaries such as Alexander Pope, and leaving a legacy of
Swiftian satire in the work of Hogarth, Fielding, Austen and
Beckett, among others. This collection of essays, with its
distinguished list of international contributors, centres on Swift,
the genres and authors who influenced him, and his impact on satire
and satirists from his own time to the twentieth century.
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