Browsing by Subject "Jonathan Swift"
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(1983)Eighteenth-century histories, essays, criticism, and poetry suggest that certain basic attitudes toward women prevailed. have categorized and described three of those attitudes: 1. Women are merely "fair nymphs" (the ...
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(1986)In A Tale of A Tub, "Battle of the Books," and "The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit," Swift consistently uses the technique of diminution. Beaumont's Swift's Classical Rhetoric traces Swift's use of diminution in tracts ...
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(1993)Swift, as an author, has puzzled scholars and critics with his themes of bodily functions, decay, and general nastiness in reference to women. My research into his poems has raised questions like: Why do Swift's poems ...