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Author Damrosch, Leopold.

Title Jonathan Swift : his life and his world / Leo Damrosch.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B SWIFT, JONATHAN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B SWIFT JONATHAN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  828.5 D18    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  828 S977XD    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B SWIFT JONATHAN D    Check Shelf
Description ix, 573 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-533) and index.
Contents Prologue -- Beginnings -- A patron and Two Mysteries -- "Long Choosing, and Beginning Late" -- Moor Park Once More -- The Village and the Castle -- London -- "A Very Positive Young Man " -- The Scandalous Tub -- Swift and God -- First Fruits -- The War and the Whigs -- Swift the Londoner -- At the Summit -- The Journal to Stella --- Enter Vanessa -- Tory triumph -- Tory Collapse -- Reluctant Dubliner -- Political Peril -- The Irish Countryside -- Stella -- Vanessa in Ireland -- National Hero -- The Astonishing Travels -- Gulliver in England -- Disillusionment and Loss -- Frustrated Patriot -- Swift among the Women --The Disgusting Poems -- Waiting for the End.
Summary "Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes some speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's public version of his life--the one accepted until recently--was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed aspects of himself and his relationships, and other people in his life helped to keep his secrets. Through his own words and those of a wide circle of friends, a complex Swift emerges: a restless, combative, empathetic figure, a man of biting wit and powerful mind, and a major figure in the history of world letters."--Publisher's description.
Subject Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Authors, Irish -- 18th century -- Biography.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. (OCoLC)fst00029322
Authors, Irish. (OCoLC)fst00822116
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Biography.
Swift, Jonathan.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Engelskspråkiga författare.
Irländska författare.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
1700-talet
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN 9780300164992 (clothbound ; alk. paper)
0300164998 (clothbound ; alk. paper)
9780300205411 (pbk.)
0300205414 (pbk.)
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