#18th-century satire
Last Saturday around these parts.
Today it is rather cool here in Hamilton, Ontario, actually.
“Dreadful-Hot Weather” from 1808.
Posted just for fun, from a scrapbook in the McMaster University archives. Photography by Dr. Emily West.
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ECF journal for Spring 2016 (28.3) features a new article on Jonathan Swift, the master satirist:
“Dark Humour and Moral Sense Theory: Or, How Swift Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Evil,” by Shane Herron, Furman University
Read this article on Project MUSE: http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/33316
ReadA Modest Proposal by Swift online here:
https://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/modest.html
For full-color portraits of Swift, visit the Getty online:
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