The Lives Of Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
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Author : Leo Damrosch
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-12
Jonathan Swift written by Leo Damrosch and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Draws on discoveries made in the past three decades to paint a new portrait of the satirist, speculating on his parentage, love life, and relationships while claiming that the public image he projected was intentionally misleading.
Jonathan Swift
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Author : John Stubbs
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2017-02-28
Jonathan Swift written by John Stubbs and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver’s Travels, by a “vivid, ardent, and engaging” (New York Times Book Review) author. One of Europe’s most important literary figures, Jonathan Swift was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, and a conscientious Anglican minister—as well as a hoaxer and a teller of tales. His anger against abuses of power would produce the most famous satires of the English language: Gulliver’s Travels as well as the Drapier Papers and the unparalleled Modest Proposal, in which he imagined the poor of Ireland farming their infants for the tables of wealthy colonists. John Stubbs’s biography captures the dirt and beauty of a world that Swift both scorned and sought to amend. It follows Swift through his many battles, for and against authority, and in his many contradictions, as a priest who sought to uphold the dogma of his church; as a man who was quite prepared to defy convention, not least in his unshakable attachment to an unmarried woman, his “Stella”; and as a writer whose vision showed that no single creed holds all the answers. Impeccably researched and beautifully told, in Jonathan Swift Stubbs has found the perfect subject for this masterfully told biography of a reluctant rebel—a voice of withering disenchantment unrivaled in English.
The Lives Of Jonathan Swift
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Author : Daniel Cook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Lives Of Jonathan Swift written by Daniel Cook and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Authors, Irish categories.
Contemporaries were mesmerized by the outrageous wit of Jonathan Swift (1667âe"1745), a writer still widely regarded as the greatest satirist of all time. Soon after Swiftâe(tm)s death, his friends and enemies raced to publish the definitive account of the Dean of St Patrickâe(tm)s. Now, Routledge brings these major works together for the first time in a new, three-volume, facsimile collection, supplemented with a full introduction, bibliographies, and other textual apparatus. The collectionâe(tm)s editor avers that these highly influential biographies of one of the leading literary figures of his generation remain incompletely understood. The persistence of a number of myths can be traced back to these studies of Swift, including his own pseudo-biographical fragment on his early life. It is crucial that many of these biographies were written or commissioned by friends and allies of Swift and that some were writtenâe"or were informed byâe"his enemies. The collectionâe(tm)s editor makes clear that the lives of Swift have a strongly interdependent relationship and, by bringing these studies together in one easy-to-use reference resource, scholars will more readily be able to trace the perambulations of specific anecdotes and biographical readings, and better understand how Johnsonâe(tm)s defining picture of Swift emerged. Volume I of the collection opens with an extended introductory account of the history of biographies and biographical criticism of Swift in the eighteenth century and beyond. The volume reproduces Lord Orreryâe(tm)s notorious âe~Judas-biographyâe(tm), the Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Jonathan Swift (1752), and a little-known book-length response, A Letter from a Gentleman in the Country, to his Son in the College of Dublin (1752âe"3), and, finally, the entry on Swift in Cibberâe(tm)s multivolume collection The Lives of the Poets (1753). The second volume includes the largely overlooked Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift, DD (1752), a freely adapted plagiarism of Orreryâe(tm)s Remarks, and Patrick Delanyâe(tm)s well-known Observations upon Lord Orreryâe(tm)s âe~Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Jonathan Swiftâe(tm) (1754). This volume also contains the biographical essay from John Hawkesworthâe(tm)s Works of Jonathan Swift, DD, Dean of St Patrickâe(tm)s, Dublin (1755), and the undervalued Life of Jonathan Swift by the lesser-known biographer W. H. Dilworth. (Although it is largely unexamined by modern scholars, his influence on contemporary Swift studies merits renewed attention.) The final volume in the collection, meanwhile, comprises Deane Swiftâe(tm)s seminal Essay upon the Life, Writings, and Character of Dr Jonathan Swift (1755), which includes Jonathan Swiftâe(tm)s own fragmentary âe~Family of Swiftâe(tm) (c. 1727), and Patrick Delanyâe(tm)s cantankerous response, A Letter to Dean Swift, Esq (1755). The collection ends with full textual apparatus, including contemporary reviews of, and responses to, the competing lives of Jonathan Swift. The Lives of Jonathan Swift provides a full and fascinating picture of eighteenth-century attitudes to one of the great figures of the age. It will be welcomed by Swift scholars and students, as well as those more broadly interested in the art and function of literary biography. âe"âe"âe"âe" µ âe"âe"âe"âe" Routledge facsimile collections make key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of literary studies, as well as those working in allied and related fields. Selected and introduced by expert editors, the gathered materials are reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination.
Memoirs Of The Life And Writings Of Jonathan Swift D D Dean Of St Patrick S Dublin
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Author : Jonathan Swift
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1752
Memoirs Of The Life And Writings Of Jonathan Swift D D Dean Of St Patrick S Dublin written by Jonathan Swift and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1752 with Authors, English categories.
Gulliver S Travels
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Author : Jonathan Swift
language : en
Publisher: Echo Library
Release Date : 2011-08-01
Gulliver S Travels written by Jonathan Swift and has been published by Echo Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-01 with Fiction categories.
The Drapier S Letters
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Author : Jonathan Swift
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903
The Drapier S Letters written by Jonathan Swift and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with Coinage categories.
Jonathan Swift
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Author : Victoria Glendinning
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Jonathan Swift written by Victoria Glendinning and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Authors, Irish categories.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is an inexhaustibly intriguing figure in literary and political history. He was an ordained clergyman whose enemies thought he did not believe in God. He became a legendary Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, and for four intoxicating years he was the intimate of Queen Anne's chief ministers, acting as their publicist and propagandist. His private life was intense and enigmatic. Two younger women, whom he called Stella and Vanessa, moved to Ireland to be close to him. He made both of them unhappy. Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer, and wit, Swift was the master of shock. His furious satirical responses to the corruption and hypocrisy he saw around him in private and public life have every relevance for our own times. Like his Gulliver in the land of Lilliput, Swift is a problem in perspective and scale. In this entertaining biography, Glendinning takes a literary zoom lens to illuminate this proud and intractable man.
A Companion To Literary Biography
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Author : Richard Bradford
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-09-12
A Companion To Literary Biography written by Richard Bradford and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An authoritative review of literary biography covering the seventeenth century to the twentieth century A Companion to Literary Biography offers a comprehensive account of literary biography spanning the history of the genre across three centuries. The editor – an esteemed literary biographer and noted expert in the field – has encouraged contributors to explore the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the writing of biographies of writers. The text examines how biographers have dealt with the lives of classic authors from Chaucer to contemporary figures such as Kingsley Amis. The Companion brings a new perspective on how literary biography enables the reader to deal with the relationship between the writer and their work. Literary biography is the most popular form of writing about writing, yet it has been largely neglected in the academic community. This volume bridges the gap between literary biography as a popular genre and its relevance for the academic study of literature. This important work: Allows the author of a biography to be treated as part of the process of interpretation and investigates biographical reading as an important aspect of criticism Examines the birth of literary biography at the close of the seventeenth century and considers its expansion through the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries Addresses the status and writing of literary biography from numerous perspectives and with regard to various sources, methodologies and theories Reviews the ways in which literary biography has played a role in our perception of writers in the mainstream of the English canon from Chaucer to the present day Written for students at the undergraduate level, through postgraduate and doctoral levels, as well as academics, A Companion to Literary Biography illustrates and accounts for the importance of the literary biography as a vital element of criticism and as an index to our perception of literary history.
The Life Of Jonathan Swift
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Author : Henry Craik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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The Bibliographer S Manual Of English Literature
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Author : William Lowndes
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-01-31
The Bibliographer S Manual Of English Literature written by William Lowndes and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-31 with Fiction categories.
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