"Thalesian Lessons: Mad Astronomers in British Fiction of the Long Eighteenth Century." Reading Swift: Papers from the Seventh Munster Symposium on Jonathan Swift

Klaeger, Florian. "Thalesian Lessons: Mad Astronomers in British Fiction of the Long Eighteenth Century," Reading Swift: Papers from the Seventh Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, ed. Janika Bischof, Kirsten Juhas, and Hermann J. Real. Leiden, Netherlands: Wilhelm Fink, 2019. Pp. 283-310.

Klaeger's deluded stargazers are drawn from a spectrum of the long eighteenth century: Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World (1666), book 3 of Swift's Travels (1726), brief interludes in Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote...