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Chapter 10 - Plutarch in the Long Eighteenth Century with a Focus on British and Irish Political Thought

from Part III - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Plutarch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2022

Rebecca Kingston
Rebecca Kingston
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University of Toronto
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Chapter 10 studies the broad contours of Plutarch’s place in political argument in English and Irish thinkers of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This includes the significance of the translation headed by John Dryden (1631–1700) and the work of Jonathan Swift (1667–1745).

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John DrydenAnne DacierAndré DaciertranslationsLanghorneJonathan SwiftGulliver’s Travels“Gryllus,” David Hume
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Plutarch's Prism
Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800
 , pp. 351 - 366
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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