On the occasion of Hermann J. Real s seventy-fifth birthday, this collection honours a scholar whose contagious curiosity has been dedicated to the study of Jonathan Swift s life and works for the past four decades. The contributions cover multiple aspects of the Dean s writings as well as a number of eighteenth-century contexts. They not only celebrate the Director of the Ehrenpreis Centre at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster, the Editor of the annual Swift Studies, and the convener of six international Munster symposia on the Dean of St Patrick s, but they also pay...
On the occasion of Hermann J. Real s seventy-fifth birthday, this collection honours a scholar whose contagious curiosity has been dedicated to the st...
What did eighteenth-century men and women think about when they contemplated the future? What was hidden in the -dark bosom of futurity-, as Richardson s Pamela calls it? Do all types of literature that supply a critique of the present conjure up an idealized past or a vision of a better future? Predictions and prophecies not only astrological but also political ones, utopian models, theological concepts like predestination, progress in the sciences, and, last but not least, life-after-death, both in the form of secular fame and the immortal soul, are among the topics addressed by the essays...
What did eighteenth-century men and women think about when they contemplated the future? What was hidden in the -dark bosom of futurity-, as Richardso...
