Swift and Science: The Satire, Politics, and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690-1730 by Lynall, G.

Swift and Science: The Satire, Politics, and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690-1730 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230343641)

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Swift and Science: The Satire, Politics, and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690-1730 by Lynall, G.

Swift and Science: The Satire, Politics, and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690-1730

$54.99
Swift and Science: The Satire, Politics, and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690-1730 by Lynall, G.

Swift and Science: The Satire, Politics, and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690-1730

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: G. Lynall
ISBN-10: 0230343643
ISBN-13: 9780230343641
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 05/22/2012
Pages: 209
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
By G. Lynall
By G. Lynall
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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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