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Civilization, Modern --- Eighteenth century --- Civilisation --- Dix-huitième siècle --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- 02.01 history of science and culture --- Civilization. --- 1700 - 1799 --- Europe --- Europe. --- Civilization --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- anno 1700-1799

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“Robertson guides us to a deeper understanding of Swift's intention in writing his tale of Gulliver’s fantastical voyages. We discover an exploration of the permanent questions that characterize human life and define our contemporary dilemma, including: what constitutes knowledge, and how can we ensure it is directed toward the human good? We gain fresh tools to investigate such questions with Robertson as our skillful guide.” —Patrick Malcolmson, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, St. Thomas University, Canada “This book is a much needed re-discovery of Swift. We can all gain from Robertson’s study a new appreciation of Swift's greatness as a thinker in addition to a literary giant and, of course, a satirist.” —Colin D. Pearce, Lyceum Professor, Lyceum Program, Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism, USA This book analyzes Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels from a political philosophy perspective. When authors have focused on politics in Swift’s writings, this has usually meant a study of how Swift located himself on issues of his day such as church and state, and Ireland. Robertson claims by contrast that Gulliver’s Travels is fundamentally a book about the “ancients” (e.g. Plato, Aristotle), and the “moderns” (science and technology), and their contrasting views about the human condition. The claim that the Travels is “a kind of prolegomena” to political philosophy leaves open the possibility that it does not achieve, or seek to achieve, a fusion of various teachings but rather uses the device of alien societies to point us to uncomfortable aspects of political philosophy’s “larger questions” we are prone to ignore. Swift, Robertson argues, draws our attention to some version of the classical republic, as idealized in Aristotle’s political writings and in Plato’s Republic, as opposed to a modern regime which, at its best or most intellectual, emphasizes modern science and technology in combination as a way to improve the human condition. Lloyd W. Robertson is a former lecturer in political science at St. Thomas University in Canada, among other post-secondary institutions.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Politics --- Literature --- literatuur --- politiek --- politieke filosofie --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- anno 1700-1799 --- Political science. --- Political science --- Literature, Modern --- Political Theory. --- Political Philosophy. --- Literary Criticism. --- Eighteenth-Century Literature. --- Philosophy. --- History and criticism. --- 18th century.

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Linguistics --- Literature --- Philology --- Philologie --- Periodicals --- Périodiques --- Eighteenth century. --- Filologie. --- Languages and linguistics --- Literature/writing. --- #BIBC:tijdschradm --- #TS:KOMA --- 82 --- Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- 82 Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap --- Arts and Humanities. --- Language & Linguistics. --- Périodiques --- EBSCOASP-E EPUB-ALPHA-P EPUB-PER-FT --- 82 Literature in general --- Literature in general --- Philology - Periodicals. --- Littérature --- Histoire et critique

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This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British Romantic theatre as an arena in which the significance of the armed woman is constantly remodelled and reappropriated to fulfil diverse ideological functions. Used to challenge as well as to enforce established notions of sex and gender difference, she is fashioned also as an allegorical tool, serving both to condemn and to champion political and social rebellion at home and abroad. Magnifying heroines who appear on stage wielding pistols, brandishing daggers, thrusting swords, and even firing explosives, the study spotlights the intricate and often surprising ways in which the stage amazon interacts with Anglo-French, Anglo-Irish, Anglo-German, and Anglo-Spanish debates at varying moments across the French revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns. At the same time, it foregrounds the extent to which new dramatic genres imported from Europe –notably, the German Sturm und Drang and the French-derived melodrama– facilitate possibilities at the turn of the nineteenth century for a refashioned female warrior, whose degree of agency, destructiveness, and heroism surpasses that of her tragic and sentimental predecessors. Dr Sarah Burdett is Lecturer in English Literature at University College London, UK. She received her BA in English from the University of East Anglia and completed her MA and PhD at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York. Sarah has published work on female violence, practice-led theatre research, eighteenth-century Irish drama, and the Georgian actress, and has been awarded Research Fellowships from the Bodleian Library, Oxford; and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC.

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Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form offers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and the politics of antiquarianism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As a historically-driven study that develops a significant critique and revision of genre- and theory-based approaches to the Gothic, it covers many key works by Wordsworth and his fellow “Lake Poets” Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. The second edition incorporates new materials that develop the argument in new directions opened up by changes in the field over the last decade. The book also provides a sustained reflection upon Romantic conservatism, including the political thought and lasting influence of Edmund Burke. New material places the book in wider and longer context of the political and historical forms seen developing in Wordsworth, and proposes Gothic Romanticism as the alternative line of cultural development to Victorian Medievalism. Tom Duggett is Senior Associate Professor of Literature at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), China, and Honorary Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Liverpool, UK.

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