Jonathan Swift: Defeat, Isolation, and the Price of Failed Norms
Starting with Jonathan Swift’s famous letter on the ‘falsity’ of the notion of man as ‘animal rationale’, this article investigates the role of norms and the normative in his works. The essay especially considers A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver’s Travels, the mock Marlborough-eulogy, the final ‘Stella’...
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| Language: | English |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari
2015-06-01
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| Series: | English Literature |
| Online Access: | http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/riviste/english-literature/2015/1/jonathan-swift-defeat-isolation-and-the-price-of-f/ |