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Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

Author : John Stubbs
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393634159
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel written by John Stubbs and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Jonathan Swift

Author : Leo Damrosch
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300164998
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by Leo Damrosch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Reputation of Jonathan Swift

Author : Donald M. Berwick
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reputation of Jonathan Swift written by Donald M. Berwick and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1941 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jonathan Swift

Author : Eugene Hammond
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611496101
Total Pages : 841 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by Eugene Hammond and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Swift: Our Dean (along with its companion, Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in) aspires to be the most accurate and engaging critical biography of Jonathan Swift ever. It builds on the thorough research of Irvin Ehrenpreis’s highly regarded 1962–1983 three-volume biography, but re-interprets Swift’s life and works by re-assessing his 1714–1720 repudiating the pretender while remaining friends with many who did not, by acknowledging that he likely had a physical affair with Esther Vanhomrigh between 1719 and 1723, by questioning whether in any sense he was a misanthrope, by noting his real care for Esther Johnson in her final illness, and by emphasizing the mutual love between Swift and his caretakers during his final difficult years.

The Reputation of Jonathan Swift 1781-1882

Author : Donald Maurice Berwick
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reputation of Jonathan Swift 1781-1882 written by Donald Maurice Berwick and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1965 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jonathan Swift

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192840783
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative edition brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career--prose, poetry, and letters--to give the essence of his work and thinking. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, which alone would have secured his place in the history of English literature. But in addition to this classic fictional satire, Swift wrote numerous works concerning politics, religion, and Ireland, some savage, others humorous, all suffused with his tremendous wit and inventiveness. This anthology includes satirical works such as A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, political pamphlets, pieces for the popular press, poems, and a generous selection from Swift's correspondence. Presented chronologically, the anthology offers a new and clearer awareness of the unity as well as the complexity of Swift's vision, and the powerful bonds between disparate pieces.

Jonathan Swift and Philosophy

Author : Janelle Pötzsch
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498521541
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift and Philosophy written by Janelle Pötzsch and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Swift and Philosophy is the first book to analyse and interpret Swift’s writing from a philosophical angle. By placing key texts of Swift in their philosophical and cultural contexts and providing background to their history of ideas, it demonstrates how well informed Swift’s criticism of the politics, philosophy, and science of his age actually was. Moreover, it also sets straight preconceptions about Swift as ignorant about the scientific developments of his time. The authors offer insights into, and interpretations of, Swift’s political philosophy, ethics, and his philosophy of science and demonstrate how versatile a writer and thinker Swift actually was. This book will be of interest to scholars of philosophy, history of ideas, and 18th century literature and culture.

Gulliver's Travels

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Echo Library
ISBN 13 : 9781603037228
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Drapier's Letters

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Drapier's Letters written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time

Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903385838
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time written by Robert McCrum and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --

Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word

Author : Deborah Baker Wyrick
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807817803
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word written by Deborah Baker Wyrick and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word, Deborah Wyrick argues that modern Continental and American literary theory is "tantalizingly applicable to Swiftian texts." Its applicability, she writes, "stems from Swift's interest in and exploration of what are now though of as phenomenological, structuralist, poststructuralist, and new historicist concerns: how a life in language comes into being, how semiotic systems determine meaning, how texts open up their own systems to other texts and to multiple interpretations." Wyrick investigates Swift's confrontations with three theories of language current in his day, theories that locate meaning in the thing named, in the idea behind the word, or in the response of the audience. She concludes that Swift fashioned a fourth theory of meaning, one that locates meaning in and among words themselves. Because of his fear of the anarchic potential of language, Swift attempted to invest his words with extratextual authority; yet a powerful counterforce was his desire to exploit the possibilities of language divested of stable significance. These divestitures, particularly the word-play and language games, ultimately served serious personal and social purposes. A crucial personal purpose was Swift's ability to create a textual self, which he did, Wyrick maintains, by constructing defensive transvestitures centered on clothes and money. These parallel sign systems produced Swift's greatest achievement in using the resources of language and history to effect political action. By using the entire Swift canon -- poems and prose narratives, letters and essays, sermons and satires -- Wyrick presents Swift's struggle with the inadequacies of language and its inability to answer the tremendous demands he made upon it. Originally published 1988. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The works of the rev. Jonathan Swift

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book The works of the rev. Jonathan Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Strange Case of Jonathan Swift and the Real Long John Silver

Author : Robert A. Prather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979880216
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Strange Case of Jonathan Swift and the Real Long John Silver written by Robert A. Prather and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the mystery and legend of Jonathan Swift of Alexandria, Virginia, a merchant with legendary silver mines, and the probable connection between the Swift silver mine legend and Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

Jonathan Swift

Author : Ian Higgins
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780746307823
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by Ian Higgins and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book's focus is the major satires upon which Swift's literary reputation principally rest including 'A Tale of Tub', 'An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity', 'Gulliver's Travels', 'A Modest Proposal' and more. This critical analysis highlights the extremism of Swiftian satire and its off page menaces.

Jonathan Swift

Author : Victoria Glendinning
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 9780805061680
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by Victoria Glendinning and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 1999-05-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prize-winning biographer tells the story of the immortal Swift. Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer, and wit, Swift is the master of shock. His furious satirical responses to the corruption and hypocrisy he saw around him in private and public life in eighteenth-century England and Ireland have every relevance for our own times. His black imagination, and his preoccupation with the foulness that lies beneath the thin veneer of artifice and civilization, gave a new adjective-Swiftian-to the lexicon of criticism. Jonathan Swift is best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, and like his Gulliver in the land of Lilliput, Swift is a problem in perspective and scale. Victoria Glinning has taken a literary zoom lens to illuminate this proud and intractable man. She investigates at close range the main events and relationships of Swift's life, providing a compelling and provocative portrait set in a rich tapestry of controversy and paradox. Yeats said famously that he saw Swift round every corner, that his ghost survived.

Jonathan Swift

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2010 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 'Norton Critical Edition' presents the rull range of Swift's writing, including not only the major literary prose works but also substantial poetic and political writings. The texts are accompanied by annotations and an introduction.

Jonathan Swift, a Hypocrite Reversed

Author : David Nokes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift, a Hypocrite Reversed written by David Nokes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the aim of this biography to offer a new, comprehensive view of Swift and his writings. For years, biographies of the Dean were bedeviled by legends of his madness and by romantic mysteries surrounding his relationship. Post-war scholarship has swept all this away, and has provided a factual basis for a much clearer understanding of both his life and work. Dr. Nokes presents a portrait of Swift in his multifarious roles as satirist, politician, churchman, and friend. In particular, he seeks to re-establish a proper balance between Swift's public and private lives. -- From publisher's description.