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Journal Article
\Thalesian Lessons: Mad Astronomers in British Fiction of the Long Eighteenth Century.\ Reading Swift: Papers from the Seventh Munster Symposium on Jonathan Swift
2020
Overview
In \"Thalesian Lessons: Mad Astronomers in British Fiction of the Long Eighteenth Century,\" Florian Klaeger's deluded stargazers are drawn from a spectrum of the long eighteenth century: Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World (1666), book 3 of Swift's Travels (1726), brief interludes in Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote (1752), Johnson's Rasselas (1759), and Mary Shelley's Last Man (1826). The discussion of the six fictions is good, but one is left with a feeling of \"OK, mad astronomers were portrayed as, well, mad astronomers.\" Like some other essays in this Munster Symposium volume, Klaeger's piece seems more like a worked-up conference paper, less like a journal article. In fairness, that is probably all the essay is intended to be.
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Pennsylvania State University Press
