Jonathan Swift : his life and his world /

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 seriously some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's pu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Damrosch, Leopold
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2013.
Colección:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Temas:
Swift, Jonathan, > 1667-1745.
1700-1799
Authors, Irish > 18th century > Biography.
Écrivains irlandais > 18e siècle > Biographies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authors, Irish.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Chronology.

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