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Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel / John Stubbs.
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Stubbs, John, 1977-
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Language
English
Published/Created
[London] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016.
©2016
Description
739 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PR3726 .S78 2016
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Authors, Irish
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18th century
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Biography
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Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745
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Biographies
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Summary note
Jonathan Swift was a man of contradictions: a man who satirized the powerful but aspired to political greatness, who mocked men's vanity but held himself in high esteem, a religious moralizer famed for his malice - a man sharply aware of humanity's flaws, but no less susceptible to them. As with his acclaimed biography of John Donne, John Stubbs paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man and a turbulent period of English and Irish history.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-711) and index.
Contents
Ireland and the civil wars
Upbringing
Abuses of learning and religion
The temples and the tub
Recovering Esther
Drifting with the Whigs, 1702-1709
Recruited by Tories, 1710-1714
The phantom academy
Small dominions
Bursting bubbles
Dean Gulliver
Indecency and indignation
The last of the gold
Sanctuary.
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ISBN
0670922056 ((hardback))
9780670922055 ((hardback))
OCLC
962788359
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