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Item Details
Title:
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A MODEST PROPOSAL
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By: |
Jonathan Swift |
Format: |
Electronic book text |

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£1.23 |
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ISBN 10: |
1105544931 |
ISBN 13: |
9781105544934 |
Publisher: |
LULU.COM |
Pub. date: |
21 February, 2012 |
Synopsis: |
A Modest Proposal is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies.[2] This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general. Readers unacquainted with its reputation as a satirical work often do not immediately realize that Swift was not seriously proposing cannibalism and infanticide, nor would readers unfamiliar with the satires of Horace and Juvenal recognize that Swift's essay follows the rules and structure of Latin satires. Swift goes to great lengths to support his argument, including a list of possible preparation styles for the children, and calculations showing the financial benefits of his suggestion. He uses methods of argument throughout his essay which lampoon then-influential William Petty and the social engineering popular among followers of Francis Bacon. |
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US |
Imprint: |
Lulu.com |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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