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Jonathan Swift : Irish blow-in /
"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, b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
University Of Delaware Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- The Author to the Reader
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources
- Part 1: 1667-1689: Blown in to Ireland
- 1: Born to the Protestant Ascendancy, and to His Own Father
- 2: Kidnapped
- 3: Ill Treatment from His Nearest Relations?
- 4: A Playful but Well-Disciplined Schoolboy
- 5: Acquiring the Prejudices of Education
- 6: Parody, Humor, and the Satirical Tripos Tradition
- Part 2: 1689-1699: Prolonged Adolescence
- 7: Wholesale Protestant Flight
- 8: The Temples, and Bridget and Esther Johnson
- 9: Impressing Sir William with Good Penmanship, Skilled Oral Reading, and Being a Good Listener
- 10: The Battle of the Boyne
- 11: Befriending Ten-Year-Old Esther Johnson
- 12: Life Mastered at Age Twenty-Five
- 13: Choosing His Grandfather's Career over His Father's
- 14: Your First Job Is Almost Always a Bad One
- 15: An Equivocating Dodge from Marriage
- 16: For the Time Being, Writing Trumps Service to the Church
- 17: Respected Secretary, but Already on the Wrong Side of Thirty
- Part 3: 1699-1704: Willows, Account Books, Taking Responsibility for Two Women Formerly in Service
- 18: With the Help of Lady Giffard
- 19: Professional Independence
- 20: Jettisoning Jane Waring
- 21: Rescuing Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley from Lives of Service
- 22: Political Theory, Never Forgetting Human Nature
- 23: Building a Comfortable Life in Ireland
- 24: Making a Laracor Cabin a Home
- 25: Swift the Historian
- 26: Throwing the Dice with A Tale of a Tub
- 27: Woops! Rev. Tisdall Proposes to Esther Johnson
- 28: After Three Prefatory Pieces, the Preface
- 29: Rethinking Dante's Divine Comedy
- 30: Digressing to the Core of Our Being
- 31: The Tale in Context
- 32: The Spider and the Bee
- 33: Stirring Up Spirituality
- 34: Planting Minefields in Your Own Path through Life
- Part 4: 1704-1710: After a Rural Retreat with Esther Johnson: Gaining Traction in the English Worlds of Politics and of Literature
- 35: Serving the Irish Church
- 36: The Vicar of Laracor vs. the Freethinking Matthew Tindal
- 37: Union with the Wrong Dependent Kingdom
- 38: At the Age of Forty, a Career Jump-Start
- 39: Spilled Coffee
- 40: To Mischief Swift
- 41: The Coffee House Life
- 42: Sacrificing the Test Act for the First Fruits?
- 43: The Sensible Moderate's Manifesto
- 44: Inconveniencing Men of Quality
- 45: Swift a Projector?
- 46: Catching a Bit of the Spleen
- 47: The Injured Lady, Déjà Vu
- 48: The Queen's Bounty Redux
- 49: At Play
- 50: Breathing Space in Ireland
- 51: Family and Friends
- Part 5: 1710-1711: Political and Personal Exhilaration
- 52: Home: England or Ireland?
- 53: The Politics of September 1710
- 54: He Understands Me, He Likes Me, He Respects Me (I'm Pretty Sure)
- 55: Sir Matthew Dudley's Extraordinary Letter
- 56: Extending the Queen's Bounty to Ireland
- 57: Suddenly, an Examiner