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

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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.

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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 <EM>Reading T.S. Eliot: 'Four Quartets' and the Journey Towards Understanding</EM>; <EM>T.S. Eliot and the Essay</EM>; <EM>On the Familiar Essay: Challenging Academic Orthodoxies</EM>; and <EM>Literary Paths to Religious Understanding: Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White</EM>. 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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