Swift’s Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing

Swift’s Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing
Author: G. Atkins
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2012-12-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137311045

More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift's writing remains striking and relevant. In this engaging study, Atkins brings forty-plus years of critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written, revealing new contexts for understanding post-Reformation reading practices and the development of the modern personal essay.