“Foreigners in their own country”: The Struldbruggs and the changing language of aging in Swift's world
This study uses the Struldbrugg episode in Swift's Gulliver's Travels as a focal point in an investigation of important shifts in perceptions of aging in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. While modernity brought many benefits for the elderly, it also delivered more equivocal...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2007
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3275769 |