Gulliver as Slave Trader: Racism Reviled by Jonathan SwiftMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 25 de jul. 2006 - 252 pàgines The pointed social commentaries of master satirist Jonathan Swift are heavy with irony, but Swift rarely left any doubt about his true meaning. In the case of Gulliver's Travels, however, Swift's meaning has been the subject of debate among scholars for almost 300 years. Here, Elaine Robinson offers a new and fascinating interpretation for this literary classic. Pointing out clues throughout Gulliver, Robinson demonstrates Swift's uses of Everyman, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Boccaccio, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton to define real Christianity as a basis for protesting the African slave trade and racism. In doing so, she illuminates Swift's insight, honesty, piercing irony, and brilliant wit, and calls attention to the disturbing relevance of Gulliver's Travels in the 21st century. |
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... philosophy . Its subject - matter is foolish ; its doctrines are false .... " 43 In his sermon " On the Wisdom of ... philosophy , as we find in his writings ; cautioning the Colossians to “ beware lest any man spoil them through ...
... philosophy . This false opinion must needs create many more ; it is like an errour in the first concoction , which cannot be corrected in the second ; the foundation is weak , and whatever superstructure you raise upon it , must of ...
... philosophy , and particularly mathematics . His perceptions of Gulliver are those of a philosopher : " Philosophers , filled with vanity , investigate the arrangement and order of things , in order to gratify their scientific curiosity ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
The African Slave Trade 2525 | 67 |
Flagitious and Facinorous Acts | 92 |
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