A Modest Proposal
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A Modest Proposal is Jonathan Swift’s famous 1729 satirical essay that uses shocking irony to criticize British policy toward the impoverished Irish.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
pamphlet
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satirical essay ⓘ |
| author | Jonathan Swift ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | classic of English satire ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| criticizes |
British exploitation of Ireland
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heartless economic rationalism ⓘ indifference to Irish poverty ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Dublin ⓘ |
| form | essay ⓘ |
| fullTitle |
A Modest Proposal
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick
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| hasInfluenced |
discourse on satire and irony
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modern political satire ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | unnamed projector (narrator) ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
18th-century Ireland
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British–Irish relations ⓘ
surface form:
Anglo-Irish relations
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| includedIn | Jonathan Swift bibliographies ⓘ |
| influencedBy | contemporary economic tracts ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
hyperbole
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irony ⓘ parody ⓘ understatement ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
political satire
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prose ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| movement | Enlightenment literature ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | first-person persona ⓘ |
| notableQuote |
"I have been assured by a very knowing American..."
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"a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food" ⓘ |
| originalPublicationFormat | pamphlet ⓘ |
| pageCountApprox | approximately 10 pages ⓘ |
| primarySubject |
British policy in Ireland
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overpopulation and poverty ⓘ poverty in Ireland ⓘ |
| proposedSolutionInText | selling and eating Irish infants ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1729 ⓘ |
| setting | Ireland ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
English literature courses
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courses on satire ⓘ |
| targetAudience | English and Anglo-Irish ruling classes ⓘ |
| theme |
colonialism
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dehumanization of the poor ⓘ economic exploitation ⓘ moral blindness ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Augustan literature ⓘ |
| tone |
ironic
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satirical ⓘ |
| workOf | Jonathan Swift ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick
subject surface form:
Jonathan Swift