Jonathan Swift and the millennium of madness : : the information age in Swift's A tale of a tub /

Jonathan Swift and the millennium of madness : : the information age in Swift's A tale of a tub / / by Kenneth Craven.

Casting aside critical shibboleths in place for centuries, Kenneth Craven's Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness proposes a new view of intellectual history. This revisionary study documents Swift's intimate knowledge of seventeenth-century science from Bacon and the Invisible Coll...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 30
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Craven, Kenneth,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden [Netherlands] ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1992.
Year of Publication:1992
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 30.
Physical Description:1 online resource (251 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • CHAPTER ONE: KRONOS: THE END OF ALL
  • CHAPTER TWO: TOLAND: MYSTERIOUS REASON
  • CHAPTER THREE: MARSH AND BROWNE: ASS AND RIDER
  • CHAPTER FOUR: MILTON: CONSCIENCE FREE
  • CHAPTER FIVE: SHAFTESBURY: VIRTUE TRAMPLED
  • CHAPTER SIX: HARRINGTON: MANY AGAINST THE BALANCE
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: TEMPLE AND THE SENTINELS OF EDEN
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: PARACELSUS: ASTRAL CHEMISTRY
  • CHAPTER NINE: NEWTON: MILLENNIAL MECHANICS
  • CHAPTER TEN: SWIFT: SATURNINE MELANCHOLY
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX.

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