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Volume 84 - January 1969

Contents

Page 6 of 8

Linguistics Division

Notes, Documents, and Critical Comment

Other

Notes, Documents, and Critical Comment

  • Swift's “Project”: Tract or Travesty?

  • Phillip Harth, Leland D. Peterson, Phillip Harth, Leland D. Peterson
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 December 2020, pp. 336-343

  • In a recent article, “Swift's Project: A Religious and Political Satire” (PMLA, LXXII, March 1967, 54–63), Leland D. Peterson argues that Swift's Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners (1709) cannot be taken as a serious “reformation tract.” In his view, what Swift appears to be recommending in the Project is as outrageous in its own way as his more famous project in A Modest Proposal and we must therefore assume that in the earlier piece, as in the later, Swift's pose is ironic, his persona unsympathetic, and his purpose satirical. Peterson concludes by suggesting that “the main targets of satire in the Project are reformers and reforming societies, projectors, nominal Christianity, and the Whig Junto” (p. 58).

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Notes, Documents, and Critical Comment

Literature Division

Front matter

  • MLA volume 84 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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    02 December 2020, pp. f1-f10
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Notes, Documents, and Critical Comment

Literature Division

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Back matter

  • MLA volume 84 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

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    02 December 2020, pp. b1-b2
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Research Article

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Front matter

  • MLA volume 84 issue 7 Cover and Front matter

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    02 December 2020, pp. f1-f7
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