A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
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Borkat, Roberta Sarfatt. “Moral Mathematics in Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal.” Eighteenth-Century Life 1, no. 3 (March 1975): 64-67.
Discusses Swift's estimates of birth rates and birth weights based on new knowledge.
Coleborne, Bryan. ““We flea the people and sell their skins”: A Source for A Modest Proposal.” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 15, no. 2 (spring 1983): 132-133.
Offers a possible source for the work.
Gilmore, Thomas B., Jr. “Swift's Modest Proposal: A Possible Source.” Philological Quarterly 47, no. 4 (October 1968): 590-92.
Offers a possible source for the work.
Greenberg, Robert A. “A Modest Proposal and the Bible.” The Modern Language Review 55, no. 4 (October 1960): 568-69.
Traces the influence of certain biblical phrases on A Modest Proposal.
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