Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing by Atkins, G.

Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137311627)

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Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing by Atkins, G.

Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing

$54.99
Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing by Atkins, G.

Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift's writing remains striking and relevant. In this engaging study, Atkins brings forty-plus years of critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written, revealing new contexts for understanding post-Reformation reading practices and the development of the modern personal essay.

Author: G. Atkins
ISBN-10: 1137311622
ISBN-13: 9781137311627
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2012
Pages: 103
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.60d

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By G. Atkins
By G. Atkins
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G. Douglas Atkins is a Professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including Reading T.S. Eliot: 'Four Quartets' and the Journey Towards Understanding; T.S. Eliot and the Essay; On the Familiar Essay: Challenging Academic Orthodoxies; and Literary Paths to Religious Understanding: Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White. He is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including NEH, the Mellon Foundation, and American Council of Learned Societies; has received several awards for teaching; and was the winner of the Kenyon Review's prize for literary excellence in nonfiction prose.

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