Jonathan Swift : his life and his world / Leo Damrosch.

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 public version of...

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Main Author: Damrosch, Leopold
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
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Physical Description:ix, 573 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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. 
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