Channel 4’s stealthy documentary on engineering human meat from the poor parallels Swift’s suggestion that people should eat the children of Ireland’s most destitute.
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Published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe was one of the first novels (in the modern sense) written in English. Some 300 years later, the complicated castaway and his misadventures continue to shape culture.
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Even now, 350 years after his birth, the great Irish satirist Jonathan Swift remains as sharp and relevant as ever.
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Reader in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature, University of Dundee
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Associate Professor in 18th-century Literature, York St John University
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Professor of Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, York St John University
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Vice President and Head of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sheffield
