AbstractsLanguage, Literature & Linguistics

Jonathan Swift as a Satirist

by Sallie B. (Couch) Holcomb




Institution: North Texas State Teachers College
Department:
Year: 1939
Keywords: satire; literature; novel; England; eighteenth century; society; Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745  – Criticism and interpretation.; Satire, English.
Record ID: 1574178
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Abstract

This thesis presents a the satire of Jonathan Swift's writings framed within the context of the historical events and conditions as they existed during his lifetime.