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Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel / John Stubbs.

By: Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2017Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First American editionDescription: 739 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393239423
  • 039323942X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR3726 .S76 2017
Contents:
Ireland and the civil wars -- Upbringing -- Abuses of learning and religion -- The temples and the tub -- Recovering Esther -- Drifting with 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.
Summary: A detailed portrait of the man behind "Gulliver's Travels" traces his early loss of a parent, the contradictions that marked his character, and his achievements as a political writer and dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ireland and the civil wars -- Upbringing -- Abuses of learning and religion -- The temples and the tub -- Recovering Esther -- Drifting with 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.

A detailed portrait of the man behind "Gulliver's Travels" traces his early loss of a parent, the contradictions that marked his character, and his achievements as a political writer and dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.

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