Date of Award
Spring 1952
Document Type
Thesis - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Hamm, Victor M.
Second Advisor
Maloney, Michael
Third Advisor
Archer, Jerone W.
Abstract
Swift's thought and his art present difficult problems worth the solving which even his most able critics have not fully answered. One of these is the question of his rationalism. There is nothing he wrote which does not at least imply the exaltation of reason, the rejection of both passion and imagination. Yet Swift's greatness as an artist lies in the intense passion which informs his diatribes against the lower appetites and in the imaginative power of his defense of reason. Perhaps an answer to the paradox may be found in seeking to understand the relationship of Swift's thought to that of his age--the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment.
Recommended Citation
Seldin, Marian, "Jonathan Swift and the Age of Reason" (1952). Master's Theses (1922-2009) Access restricted to Marquette Campus. 1543.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theses/1543