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Swift and Science
Gregory Lynall
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Description for Swift and Science
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
209
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349344734
SKU
V9781349344734
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About Gregory Lynall
GREGORY LYNALL is lecturer in the School of English at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has published widely on the relationship between literature, science and alchemy in the long eighteenth century, and worked as a research assistant on A Tale of a Tub and Other Works, ed. Marcus Walsh, for the Cambridge Edition of Jonathan Swift.
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