Jonathan Swift and the Burden of the Future"Alan Chalmers's Jonathan Swift and the Burden of the Future explores Swift's temporal apprehension in the context of the pertinent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious, scientific, and cultural debates. It also compares Swift's imaginative understanding of time with that of such other writers as Juvenal, Rabelais, Milton, Pope, Gray, and Whitman."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Contents
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Swifts Sense of Time | 29 |
The Refuse of Time What Posterity Meant to Swift | 40 |
A Tale of a Tub | 45 |
Swift and the Authorial Life Beyond Life | 51 |
Temporal Transgressions Satire and the Future | 59 |
Magic and Mortal Danger in the World of Satire | 64 |
Gulliver Going Home | 108 |
Narrative Progress and the Satiric List | 112 |
Gullivers Travels as Narrative and Antinarrative | 115 |
Gulliver Beyond His Travels | 124 |
Intimate Transcriptions SelfDissemination in the Poetry of Jonathan Swift | 130 |
To Stella Who Collected and Transcribed His Poems | 131 |
To Janus on New Years Day Written in the Year 1729 | 136 |
Verses on the Death of Dr Swift DSPD | 139 |
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