A Modest Proposal in Context: Swift, Politeness, and A Proposal for giving Badges to the Beggars.
The present essay argues that the notion of politeness spans the distance between two disparate views of the Modest Proposal: one in which Swift is detached from his speaker, and another in which Swift is complicit in his speaker's brutality. Swift's essay can be seen as an attack on politeness in t...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Philology Vol. 114; no. 4; pp. 852 - 875 |
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University of North Carolina Press
Fall2017
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