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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. 1. Introduction -- 2. The Refuse Of Time: What Posterity Meant To Swift -- 3. Temporal Transgressions: Satire And The Future -- 4. The Future Made Flesh: Swift And The Satiric Body -- 5. Future Bound: Gulliver And The Text In His Hand -- 6. Intimate Transcriptions: Self-dissemination In Swift's Poetry. Alan D. Chalmers. Began As A Doctoral Dissertation At The University Of Southern California--p. 11. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 165-171) And Index.

Author

Chalmers, Alan D., 1957-

Publisher

Newark: University of Delaware Press ; London: Associated University Presses

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874135541

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24