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

by G. Douglas Atkins

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137311622
• ISBN13: 9781137311627
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"