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

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Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Philip Harth - Weinbrot, Howard D, and Schakel, Peter J (Contributions by), and Karian, Stephen E (Contributions by)
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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 and Thomas More's Utopia . Other essays discuss Alexander Pope, eighteenth-century ...

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Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Philip Harth 2001, University of Wisconsin Press

ISBN-13: 9780299174804

Hardcover