A Modest Proposal: References & Edit History

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Invalidated site: NOVA Open Publishing - World Literature - Jonathan Swift – “A Modest Proposal”. Oct 28, 2026
Add new Web site: CORE - Political arithmetick: accounting for irony in Swift’s A Modest Proposal (PDF). Feb 03, 2026
Add new Web site: Pressbooks - An Open Companion to Early British Literature - Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal. Dec 24, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - In Our Time - Swift's A Modest Proposal. Apr 10, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - Political arithmetick: accounting for irony in Swift’s A Modest Proposal (PDF). Nov 08, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - The 100 best nonfiction books: No 88 ? A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1729). May 24, 2024
Add new Web site: NOVA Open Publishing - World Literature - Jonathan Swift – “A Modest Proposal”. Dec 15, 2023
Add new Web site: The Victorian Web - "A Modest Proposal". Aug 25, 2023
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - "A Modest Proposal". Mar 25, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. Feb 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Literary Devices - A Modest Proposal. Dec 30, 2022
Add new Web site: Internet Archive - A Modest Proposal. Jan 10, 2022
Corrected display issue. Feb 14, 2020
Add new Web site: The University of Adelaide - "A Modest Proposal". Jul 07, 2014
New article added. May 26, 2011
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