The Significance of Clothing Imagery in Selected Works of Jonathan Swift

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Mut'tah University- Jordan

Abstract

This paper seeks to examine the significance of clothing imagery in selected works of Jonathan Swift. In certain works, Swift uses clothing as a tool for exposure and protection. Swift has also used clothing in manifesting his attitude toward mankind and showing the duality of human nature. In the selected works, clothing functions in a way that symbolizes the tension between innocence and avarice, the ancients and the moderns and as a means of protection in the cases of identity crisis.
 

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