Author:
Van Meter Jan R.,Peterson Leland D.
Abstract
THE recent exchange between Phillip Harth and Leland D. Peterson (PMLA, 84, March 1969, 336–43) over Peterson's reading of Swift's Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Reformation of Manners (1709) has left the issue precisely where it began. In his original article (PMLA, 82, March 1967, 54–63), Peterson presented a new interpretation of Swift's essay which would read as satire what has been long accepted as a direct proposal for political and moral reform. Basically, Peterson's thesis is that the traditional reading of the Project poses a problem for students of Swift since the article
… seems to advocate hypocrisy, a vice consistently satirized and anathematized in such works as A Tale of a Tub, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and Gulliver's Travels.
Publisher
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
Cited by
10 articles.
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1. Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness;2004-05-06
2. Bibliography;Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness;2004-05-06
3. Notes;Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness;2004-05-06
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