Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Philip Harth

by Howard D. Weinbrot, Peter J. Schakel, Stephen E. Karian

Eighteenth-Century Contexts offers a lively array of essays that consider literary, intellectual, political, theological, and cultural aspects of the years 1650-1800, in the British Isles and Europe. At the center of the book is Jonathan Swift; several essays delve into his poetry, his similarities to Bernard Mandeville, his response to Anthony Collins's Discourse of Free-Thinking, and the relationship between his Gulliver's Travels...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299174808
• ISBN13: 9780299174804
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"