Michael McKeon (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "The Parables of the Younger Son (II): Swift and the Containment of Desire," in The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, pp. 338-56.
[In the following essay, McKeon discusses how Gulliver reveals Swift's pessimism concerning one's ability to transcend his or her political and social status because of predetermining cultural forces and inescapable material realities.]
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For a brief time fellow servants of the Tory ministry, [Daniel] Defoe and Swift were...
Source: Literary Criticism (1400-1800), ©1998 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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