Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Swift’s Economic Views and Mercantilism 13
6. A Modest Proposal and Populousness 39
7. Jonathan Swift and Charity 49
8. Jonathan Swift: “Not the Gravest of Divines” 63
9. Swift, the Mysteries, and Deism 89
10. Swift’s Deanery Income 107
11. Jonathan Swift 119
12. The Shandean Homunculus: The Background of Sterne’s “Little Gentleman” 140
13. Johnson’s Feathered Man: “A Dissertation on the Art of Flying” Considered 160
14. Pope’s Belinda, The General Emporie of the World, and the Wondrous Worm 178
15. Of Silkworms and Farthingales and the Will of God 199
16. London Observed: The Progress of a Simile 218
17. Index 233