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Feb 20, 2017 · In this excellent literary biography, Stubbs draws on extensive research to contextualize Swift’s courtier’s life within the hurly-burly of 18th-century foreign and domestic politics, also...
Feb 28, 2017 · Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel by John Stubbs has an overall rating of Rave based on 6 book reviews.
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Jan 3, 2017 · There’s no shortage of books about the life of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), but this one might just dissuade others from writing another—if Leo Damrosch’s excellent 2013 biography didn’t already do so.
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Nov 27, 2013 · The Harvard professor Leo Damrosch’s commanding new biography, “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World,” does ample justice to a figure for whom religion and politics — the world — were ...
Nov 5, 2013 · Besides being a great essayist, satirist, novelist and poet, Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was a very public man: a social-climbing Anglican minister, a friend to Alexander Pope, a competitor of Daniel Defoe and Laurence Sterne, a stalwart nationalist of Ireland—where he would be consigned to live—and a man whose shifting political ...
May 1, 1999 · A BIOGRAPHY. by Victoria Glendinning ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, 1999. A lively, discursive distillation of the Swiftian essentials from Swift’s own life. Given that popular biographies of Swift began shortly after his death and that serious, scholarly ones now come out with regularity, Whitbread-winning biographer and novelist Glendinning ...
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Jan 1, 1985 · In this biography, David Nokes details the span of Swift’s eventful life, from his childhood in Dublin to his time as a propagandist and disappointed placeseeker in England, through to his later years as an author and Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin.
