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Nathalie Zimpfer, « The Poïesis of Non-Modern Modernity: Swift’s Battle of the Books », XVII-XVIII, ID : 10.4000/1718.684
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One might begin by stating the obvious: Jonathan Swift’s works and entire career as a clergyman, satirist and pamphleteer are defined by his resistance to Modernity, which he repeatedly derided by assuming the persona of “the most devoted Servant of all Modern Forms” seeking to accomplish “the general Good of Mankind” (Prose Works 1.27; 77). Swift spent his life recording the manner in which traditional moral discourse mutates into modern commercial discourse. Significantly, the earliest cita...