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Swift and Science The Satire, Politics and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690-1730 /

It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can...

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Hovedforfatter: Lynall, G. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Institution som forfatter: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:English
Udgivet: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Udgivelse:1st ed. 2012.
Fag:
British literature.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
Literature, Modern.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature—History and criticism.
British and Irish Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Literary History.
Online adgang:https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137016966
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Summary:It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination.
Fysisk beskrivelse:XI, 209 p. online resource.
ISBN:9781137016966

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