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Jonathan Swift's response to the challenge of modernity : a reading of Gulliver's Travels.
In Gulliver's Travels Swift does obliquely what he does in his sermons and non-satirical writings more directly: he defends a settled social order, which was held together morally by a common Christian religion and led politically by men of property and liberal education, or by gentlemen. Swift …
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"The projecting species": Reading Swift's critique of the scientific project in Book 3 of "Gulliver's Travels"
Book 3 of Jonathan Swift's Travels into the Remote Nations of the World offers a thorough critique of the eighteenth-century scientific world--a world marked by systematization, theoretical speculation, stories of "progress," and innovation, which people have commonly embraced and into which the …