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 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349344734)

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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: Paperback
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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: 1349344737
ISBN-13: 9781349344734
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2012
Pages: 209
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d
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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