The Unthinkable Swift situates the works of Jonathan Swift in relation to the ideological and political currents of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Montag’s analysis aims to contribute both to an understanding of a seminal figure in English literature, and to the study of the dominant political and religious ideologies of the early capitalist state.

“Provocatively challenging and daring” … Carole Fabricant, Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Warren Montag is an Associate Professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is the author of Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and His Contemporaries, co-editor of Masses, Classes and the Public Sphere (both from Verso), and editor of the collection The New Spinoza..

 
Publication
1994

192 pages


Paper
1 85984 000 0
£14 / US$18