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Creating Reason in the "Age of Reason": An Analysis of the Life and Times of Jonathan Swift.
Title: Creating Reason in the "Age of Reason": An Analysis of the Life and Times of Jonathan Swift.
Category: Literature
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Creating Reason in the "Age of Reason": An Analysis of the Life and Times of Jonathan Swift.
The "thinkers" of our society have always been criticized of reacting in extreme ways, and "during the ... Age of Reason (generally considered from 1650-1850), the literary genre known as the comedy of manners attempted to combat such pernicious either-or ways of thinking. As a form of satire, the comedy of manners ridiculed human vices with the aim of producing an improvement in [behavior]" (Maas). The most important functions in society are thought to be religion and …showed first 75 words of 1794 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1794 total…Jonathan Swift and Ireland
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1962
Levy, Matthew "Gulliver's Historico-Tropological Journey, or
Measurement, Irony and the Grotesque in Gulliver's Travels"
GEMCS Paper. 15 February 2004.
http://classiclit.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uta.edu%2Fenglish%2Fdab%2Fbaud%2Ffatal%2Fobscene.html
Frances Deutsch Louis, The anatomy of misunderstanding : a study of Swift's epistemological imagination in A tale of a tub and Gulliver's travels
- Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bryn Mawr, 1976. - 325 leaves.
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