Devouring Posterity: "A Modest Proposal", Empire, and Ireland's "Debt of the Nation"
Scholars have rightly asserted that the cannibal motif of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is the mechanism by which the author covertly addresses colonialist pillaging in Ireland. Less attention has been paid to an unresolved problem, that of the satire's audience. This arti...
| Veröffentlicht in: | PMLA. in. - Modern Language Association of America. - 122(2007), 3, Seite 679-695 |
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| Schlagworte: | Behavioral sciences Political science Biological sciences Arts Social sciences Economics |
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