Thesis
Scholarship, polemics, and confession in the early satires of Jonathan Swift
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This thesis aims to offer a novel account of Jonathan Swift’s early satires, mainly ‘A Tale of a Tub’ and its companion pieces, by placing them in the trajectory of European humanism. I strive to recover a fuller picture of the tradition of humanist satire, not just as a literary genre, but especially as an instrument of scholarly debate. How did satire function as an intellectual and heuristic tool, at a time when ideas of impartiality and objectivity were yet to be developed, when rival ...
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+ Poole, W
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Oxford college:
- New College
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Womersley, D
- Department:
- English Faculty, Oxford
- Role:
- Supervisor
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- UUID:
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- Deposit date:
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2019-07-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Marcello Cattaneo
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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