Encyclopedia - Jonathan Swift: Encyclopedia Ii - Jonathan Swift - Biography
Jonathan Swift was born at No. 7, Hoey's Court, Dublin, to an English mother, seven months after his father died. He was educated by his ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jonathan Swift: Encyclopedia Ii - Jonathan Swift - Writings
Dating generally follows the Norton Critical and Oxford Authors single-volume editions of Swift's writings, as well as Herbert Davis's (e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phobos Moon: Encyclopedia Ii - Phobos Moon - Phobos In Fiction
The first episode of the computer and video game Doom takes place in a UAC base on Phobos. Phobos also featured in Kim Stanley Robinson's...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cloud City: Encyclopedia - Cloud City
Cloud City is a fictional floating city on Bespin, a planet in the Star Wars universe which appears in the film The Empire Strikes Back. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1726: Encyclopedia - 1726
1726 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Tale Of A Tub: Encyclopedia - A Tale Of A Tub
This article is about the satire by Jonathan Swift. For the 1633 play by Ben Jonson, see A Tale of a Tub (play). A Tale of a Tub was the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Modest Proposal: Encyclopedia - A Modest Proposal
This article refers to a classic satirical pamphlet written by Jonathan Swift., entitled... "A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Chi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brobdingnagian Bards: Encyclopedia - Brobdingnagian Bards
The Brobdingnagian Bards are a Celtic music group from Austin, Texas. They derived their name from the kingdom of coarse giants described...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yowie Cryptid: Encyclopedia - Yowie Cryptid
Yowie can refer to either of two mythical creatures of Australian folklore: The name has been applied to an Australian cryptid analogous ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clay S. Jenkinson: Encyclopedia - Clay S. Jenkinson
Clay S. Jenkinson (born 1955) is an American humanities scholar and author who first achieved fame for his portrayal (first-person histor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Utopian And Dystopian Fiction: Encyclopedia - Utopian And Dystopian Fiction
Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world as the setting for a novel. Dystopian fiction is the opposite: creation of a nightmare ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phobos Moon: Encyclopedia Ii - Phobos Moon - Discovery
Phobos was discovered by American astronomer Asaph Hall on August 18, 1877 at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C at about 09:14 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phobos Moon: Encyclopedia Ii - Phobos Moon - Hollow Phobos Claims
Around 1958, the distinguished Russian astrophysicist Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky, studying the secular acceleration of Phobos' orbital m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phobos Moon: Encyclopedia Ii - Phobos Moon - Orbital Characteristics
Phobos orbits Mars below the synchronous orbit radius, meaning that it moves around Mars faster than Mars itself rotates. Therefore it ri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phobos Moon: Encyclopedia Ii - Phobos Moon - Physical Characteristics
Phobos is a dark body that appears to be composed of C-type surface materials. It is similar to the C-type (blackish carbonaceous chondri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fictional Country: Encyclopedia Ii - Fictional Country - Semi-fictional Countries
Some lands exist uneasily on the borderlands of fiction and fact, of imagination and reality. There follows a list of places with a real ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fictional Country: Encyclopedia Ii - Fictional Country - Lands Of Robert E. Howard
While the map of Earth in the "Hyborian Age" differs markedly from today's, some of Howard's fictional, ancient countries are obviously s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fictional Country: Encyclopedia Ii - Fictional Country - Incomplete List Of Fictional Countries
Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it — as op...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cloud City: Encyclopedia Ii - Cloud City - Description
The city floats among the clouds with the aid of repulsorlifts and is home to Lando Calrissian and his aide, Lobot. It is a mining colony...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fictional Country: Encyclopedia Ii - Fictional Country - Lands Of Arda And Middle-earth
Though J. R. R. Tolkien indicated that he intended Arda to represent our Earth in a previous age, sometimes few correspondences exist bet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Tale Of A Tub: Encyclopedia Ii - A Tale Of A Tub - Authorial Background
Born of English parents in Ireland, Jonathan Swift was working as Sir William Temple's secretary at the time he composed A Tale of a Tub ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Edward Hartpole Lecky: Encyclopedia Ii - William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Career
In 1860 he published anonymously a small book entitled The Religious Tendencies of the Age, but on leaving college he abandoned his origi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Consubstantiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Consubstantiation - History And Culture
In England in the late 14th century, there was a political and religious movement known as Lollardy. Among much broader goals, the Lollar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Misanthropy: Encyclopedia Ii - Misanthropy - Misanthropy In Literature
Misanthropy has been ascribed to a number of writers of satire, such as William S. Gilbert ("I hate my fellow-man"), but such identificat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yahoo!: Encyclopedia Ii - Yahoo! - History
Yahoo! started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. "Yet Ano...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Arbuthnot: Encyclopedia Ii - John Arbuthnot - As A Scribleran
In 1710, Jonathan Swift moved to London. Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford (who was then the secretary of the treasury and not a peer) an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Misanthropy: Encyclopedia Ii - Misanthropy - Misanthropy In Literature
Misanthropy has been ascribed to a number of writers of satire, such as William S. Gilbert ("I hate my fellow-man"), but such identificat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oxymoron: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxymoron - Examples
Oxymoron - Deliberate Use of Oxymoron. "O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!" John Donne, Devotions on Emergent Occasions "I do h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Augustan Prose: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustan Prose - Satire Unclassified
A single name overshadows all others in 18th century prose satire: Jonathan Swift. Swift wrote poetry as well as prose, and his satires r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floating Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Floating Island - In Fiction
A "floating island" in fiction (sometimes called a "flying island"), is a fictitious landmass that flies above the surface of the earth (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yahoo!: Encyclopedia Ii - Yahoo! - History
Yahoo! started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. "Yet Ano...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - H. L. Mencken: Encyclopedia Ii - H. L. Mencken - Style
Perhaps Mencken's most important contribution to American letters is his satirical style. Mencken, influenced heavily by Mark Twain and J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erewhon: Encyclopedia Ii - Erewhon - Content
The greater part of the book consists of a description of Erewhon. The nature of this nation is clearly intended to be ambiguous. At firs...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neoclassicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Neoclassicism - Literary Neoclassicism
The arts do not always march in step, and "neoclassicism" in English literature is associated with the "Augustan" writers of the early 18...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bloody: Encyclopedia Ii - Bloody - Etymology
Some say it may be derived from the phrase "by Our Lady", a sacrilegious invocation of the Virgin Mary. The abbreviated form "By'r Lady" ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Literature - Fiction
Although the epics of Celtic Ireland were written in prose and not verse, most people would probably consider that Irish fiction proper b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Messiah Handel: Encyclopedia Ii - Messiah Handel - Composition And Premiere
In the summer of 1741 Handel, at the peak of his musical powers but depressed and in debt, began setting Charles Jennens' Biblical libret...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Theatre - The Restoration
An early example of this trend is William Congreve, one of the most important writers for the late 18th London stage. Although born in Yo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Infinite Monkey Theorem: Encyclopedia Ii - Infinite Monkey Theorem - Literature And Popular Culture
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1782) anticipates the central idea of the theorem, depicting a professor of the Grand Academy of Lag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Raining Animals: Encyclopedia Ii - Raining Animals - Raining Animals In Culture
Probably the most common reference of this phenomenon in culture is the expression raining cats and dogs that describes copious rains. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Blackmore: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Blackmore - As A Dunce
Blackmore's fame today rests with his enemies. Garth's The Dispensary made him out to be a greedy fool with delusions, but Pope's critici...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Fiction - The 18th Century
Laurence Sterne Irish fiction can be said to begin with the publication in 1726 of Jonathan Swift's masterpiece Gulliver's Travels. This ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colley Cibber: Encyclopedia Ii - Colley Cibber - Cibber As Dunce
Colley Cibber - Pamphlet wars. From the very beginning of the 18th century, when Cibber first rose to being Rich's right-hand man and s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albany New Hampshire: Encyclopedia Ii - Albany New Hampshire - History
The community was first chartered in 1766 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth as Burton for General Jonathan Burton of Wilton. The tow...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Carlyle: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Carlyle - Influence
Thomas Carlyle is notable both for his continuation of older traditions of the Tory satirists of the 18th century in England and for forg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Congreve Playwright: Encyclopedia Ii - William Congreve Playwright - Biography
Born in Bardsey, England (near Leeds), Congreve was educated in the law at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland; there he met Jonathan Swif...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adamant: Encyclopedia - Adamant
Adamant and similar words are used to refer to any especially hard substance, whether composed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Allegory: Encyclopedia - Allegory
An allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos, "other", and αγορευειν, agoreuein, "to speak in public") is a figurative mode of repr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Consubstantiation: Encyclopedia - Consubstantiation
also known as "The Eucharist" or "The Lord's Supper" Theology Consecration Consubstantiation Memorialism Real Presence Transubstantiation...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transubstantiation: Encyclopedia - Transubstantiation
also known as "The Eucharist" or "The Lord's Supper" Theology Consecration Consubstantiation Memorialism Real Presence Transubstantiation...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1745: Encyclopedia - 1745
1745 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1720: Encyclopedia - 1720
1720 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1667: Encyclopedia - 1667
1667 - Births. April 29 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (d. 1735) May 26 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1703: Encyclopedia - 1703
1703 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Tale Of A Tub: Encyclopedia Ii - A Tale Of A Tub - Summary
A Tale of a Tub is divided between various forms of digression and sections of a "tale." The "tale," or narrative, is an allegory that co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Confederacy Of Dunces: Encyclopedia Ii - A Confederacy Of Dunces - Major Characters
A Confederacy of Dunces - Ignatius J. Reilly. Ignatius is something of a modern Don Quixote — eccentric and creative, sometimes to th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Modest Proposal: Encyclopedia Ii - A Modest Proposal - Theme
The author (who is not to be confused with Swift himself, but is merely a persona) argues, through economic reasoning as well as a self-r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carrickfergus: Encyclopedia Ii - Carrickfergus - 2001 Census
Carrickfergus is classified by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) as a Large Town (ie population between 18,000 and 75,000 peo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Church Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Church Of Ireland - History
The Church of Ireland claims that its origins go back to the ancient Celtic Church in Ireland, which was founded at Paris by disciples of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Voltaire: Encyclopedia Ii - Voltaire - Biography
Voltaire - Early Years. Voltaire's mother died when he was seven years old. At age nine, he was sent to the Jesuit Collège Louis-le-Gr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Old English Literature
Main Article: Anglo-Saxon literature The earliest form of the English language developed after the settlement of the Saxons and other Ger...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Of Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - Anne Of Great Britain - Early Life
Anne was born in St. James's Palace of London, the second daughter of James, Duke of York, (afterwards James II) and his first wife, the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transubstantiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Transubstantiation - Theology Of Transubstantiation
Transubstantiation is generally understood to refer to the belief that at the "moment" of Consecration, the elements (or "gifts" as they ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Carlyle: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Carlyle - Writings
Thomas Carlyle - Early writings. His first major work, Sartor Resartus (1832) was intended to be a new kind of book: simultaneously fac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannibalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannibalism - Cannibal Themes In Myth, Religion Or Arts
On a primitive level, ritually eating part of the slaughtered enemy is a way of assuming the life-spirit of the departed. In a funeral ri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colley Cibber: Encyclopedia Ii - Colley Cibber - Life
Cibber was born in London, his father being Caius Gabriel Cibber, a distinguished sculptor originally from Denmark. Colley's parents want...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Early Modern English Literature To 1660
The sonnet form and other Italian literary influences arrived in English literature. The sonnet was introduced into English by Thomas Wya...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - English Language Literature From 1660 To The Late 18th Century
The position of Poet Laureate was formalised in this period. The early 18th century is known as the Augustan Age of English literature. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Late Medieval Literature In England
Latin literature circulated among the educated classes. Following the Norman conquest, the development of Anglo-Norman literature in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Carlyle: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Carlyle - Private Life
Carlyle married Jane Welsh in 1826, but the marriage was quite unhappy. The letters between Carlyle and his wife have been published, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Non English Language Literatures From The 16th Century To The 19th Century
As the Norman nobles of Scotland assimilated to indigenous culture they commissioned Scots versions of popular continental romances, for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Other Medieval Literatures
For a comparatively small country, Ireland has made a disproportionate contribution to world literature in all its branches, and especial...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - English Language Literature Since 1900
The major lyric poet of the first decades of the 20th century was Thomas Hardy, who concentrated on poetry after the harsh response to hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Church Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Church Of Ireland - The Church Of Ireland Today
The contemporary Church of Ireland, despite having a small number of High Church (often described as Anglo-Catholic) parishes, is on the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colley Cibber: Encyclopedia Ii - Colley Cibber - Cibber's Autobiography
Cibber's colourful autobiography, An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740), pioneered the truly personal autobiography, and inaugu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colley Cibber: Encyclopedia Ii - Colley Cibber - Cibber As Actor
Cibber began his career as an actor at Drury Lane in 1690, with little success for several years. "The first Thing that enters into the H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Carlyle: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Carlyle - Early Life And Influences
Carlyle was born in Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, and was educated at Annan Academy, Annan. He was powerfully influenced by his fam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Literary Prizes
Recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature from the isles include Rudyard Kipling (1907), George Bernard Shaw (1925), John Galsworthy (1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Of Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - Anne Of Great Britain - Style And Arms
The official style of Anne before 1707 was "Anne, by the Grace of God, Queen of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Non English Language Literatures Since 1900
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Welsh literature began to reflect the way the Welsh language was increasingly becoming a politic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - 19th Century English Language Literature
British literature - The Romantics. Major political and social changes at the end of the eighteenth century, particularly the French Re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Of Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - Anne Of Great Britain - Death
Anne died of suppressed gout, ending in erysipelas, which produced an abscess and fever, at approximately 7 o'clock on 1 August 1714. Her...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Confederacy Of Dunces: Encyclopedia Ii - A Confederacy Of Dunces - Notes
The book is famous for its rich depiction of New Orleans and the type of dialogue spoken there. Many locals and writers think that it is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transubstantiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Transubstantiation - Anglicanism
Anglican Churches generally use the term "Real Presence" without necessarily being more precise, though many Anglican divines utilize the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transubstantiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Transubstantiation - Roman Catholicism
The Roman Catholic Church holds that Christ directly instructed the Apostles in belief in the real presence, that the elements of the Euc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transubstantiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Transubstantiation - Lutheranism
Lutherans subscribe to a form of the doctrine of the Eucharistic Real Presence, believing the body and blood of Jesus Christ are present ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Voltaire: Encyclopedia Ii - Voltaire - Quotations
Voltaire - Misattribution. The following quote is commonly misattributed to Voltaire: I do not agree with what you say, but will def...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transubstantiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Transubstantiation - Other Christian Denominations
In contrast to the Orthodox and Catholic view, many Protestant churches hold that Holy Communion merely symbolically commemorates or memo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Voltaire: Encyclopedia Ii - Voltaire - Works
Voltaire was a prolific writer and produced works in almost every literary form, authoring plays, poetry, novels, essays, historical and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Voltaire: Encyclopedia Ii - Voltaire - Legacy
Voltaire perceived the French bourgeoisie to be too small and ineffective, the aristocracy to be parasitic and corrupt, the commoners as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Tale Of A Tub: Encyclopedia Ii - A Tale Of A Tub - Cultural Setting
During the Restoration period in England, the print revolution began to change every aspect of society. It became possible for anyone to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Tale Of A Tub: Encyclopedia Ii - A Tale Of A Tub - Nature Of The Satire
Upon its publication, the public realized both that there was an allegory in the story of the brothers and that there were particular pol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Of Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - Anne Of Great Britain - Reign In Great Britain
The next years of Anne's reign were marked by attempts to merge England and Scotland into one realm. When it had passed the Act of Settle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Of Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - Anne Of Great Britain - Later Years
The fall of the Whigs came about quickly as the expensive War of the Spanish Succession grew unpopular in England; Robert Harley was part...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transubstantiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Transubstantiation - Historical Perspectives
The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist was already well established in the Early Church. St. Ignatius of Antioch appears to have ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Of Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - Anne Of Great Britain - Early Reign
William III died March 8, 1702, leaving the Crown to Anne (April 23). At about the same time, the War of the Spanish Succession began; at...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Of Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - Anne Of Great Britain - William And Mary
Soon after their accession, William and Mary exalted Lord Churchill by granting him the Earldom of Marlborough. The subsequent treatment ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Tale Of A Tub: Encyclopedia Ii - A Tale Of A Tub - Historical Background
In the historical background to the period of 1696-1705, the most important political events might be the Restoration of Charles II in 16...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Tale Of A Tub: Encyclopedia Ii - A Tale Of A Tub - Publication History
The Tale was originally published in 1704, by John Nutt. Swift had used Benjamin Tooke previously when publishing for Sir William Temple,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Of Great Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - Anne Of Great Britain - Legacy
The reign of Anne was marked by an increase in the influence of ministers and a decrease in the influence of the Crown. In 1708, Anne bec...   » Read the article