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Swift and Science

The Satire, Politics and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690-1730

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  • © 2012

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  1. Gregory Lynall

    1. University of Liverpool, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Altitudes of Authority

    • Gregory Lynall
    Pages 1-16

  3. Meditations and Mechanisms: Swift and Robert Boyle’s Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects

    • Gregory Lynall
    Pages 17-49

  4. Sinking the ‘Spider’s Cittadel’: The Battel of the Books and Thomas Burnet’s ‘Philosophical Romance’ of the Earth

    • Gregory Lynall
    Pages 50-68

  5. Newtonian Battels with Rising Stars and Wheeling Moons

    • Gregory Lynall
    Pages 69-88

  6. Laputian Newtons: Science, the Wood’s Halfpence Affair and Gulliver’s Travels

    • Gregory Lynall
    Pages 89-119

  7. Socinians and Queens: Samuel Clarke and ‘Directions for a Birthday Song’

    • Gregory Lynall
    Pages 120-142

  8. Afterword

    • Gregory Lynall
    Pages 143-147

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 148-209
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About this book

It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination.

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  • University of Liverpool, UK

    Gregory Lynall

About the author

GREGORY LYNALL is lecturer in the School of English at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has published widely on the relationship between literature, science and alchemy in the long eighteenth century, and worked as a research assistant on A Tale of a Tub and Other Works, ed. Marcus Walsh, for the Cambridge Edition of Jonathan Swift.

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