At first, when death appeared improbable, because it had never visited him before, Knight could think of no future, nor of anything connected with his past. He could only look sternly at Nature's treacherous attempt to put an end to him ...
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Again using Gulliver's Travels as a touchstone, Lynall shows in meticulous detail how Swift's disappointment with Sir Isaac Newton (the Royal Society president from 1703–27) and his scepticism of the Society's practical benefit led him ...
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The goal of this special issue of American Literature is to encourage scholars in both the sciences and the humanities to estrange themselves from their regular ways of thinking. Committed...