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Jonathan Swift

Irish Blow-In
  • ISBN-13: 9781611496062
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS
  • By Eugene Hammond
  • Price: AUD $297.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2016
  • Format: Hardback 822 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]
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Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in (along with its companion, Jonathan Swift: Our Dean) aspires to be the most accurate and engaging critical biography of Jonathan Swift ever published. It builds on the thorough research of Irvin Ehrenpreis's highly regarded 1962-1983 three-volume biography, but reinterprets Swift's life and works by reassessing his childhood, stressing his exuberance, honestly portraying his intense affection for Esther Johnson (he called her "saucebox" and not "Stella" when she was in her twenties), and not projecting Swift's later-in-life angry behavior back onto his first forty-seven years.
Preface The Author to the Reader Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Part One: 1667-1689: Blown in to Ireland Part Two: 1689-1699: Prolonged Adolescence Part Three: 1699-1704: Willows, Account Books, Taking Responsibility for Two Women Formerly in Service Part Four: 1704-1710: Gaining Traction in the English Worlds of Politics and of Literature Part Five: 1710-1711: Political and Personal Exhilaration Part Six: 1711-1713: Swift's Pen (at Considerable Cost to Swift) Trumps Marlborough's Sword Part Seven: 1713-1714: Once More into the Breach Bibliography, Manuscript Sources Bibliography, Printed Sources Index About the Author
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