Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel / John Stubbs.

Author
Stubbs, John, 1977- [Browse]
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Book
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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    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.
    ISBN
    • 0670922056 ((hardback))
    • 9780670922055 ((hardback))
    OCLC
    962788359
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