Author : Kenneth Craven
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004246797
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness by : Kenneth Craven
Download or read book Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness written by Kenneth Craven and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative new view of intellectual history probes the scientific millenarian myth directing twentieth-century learning. Craven's interdisciplinary findings reveal Swift's dismembering of the consolidated legacy of Paracelsus, Bacon, Milton, Newton, Locke, Toland, and Shaftesbury.