Purchase
His Life and His World
Yale University Press
October 2013
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Featuring: Swift
590 pages
ISBN: 0300164998
EAN: 9780300164992
Kindle: B00FOR57PM
Hardcover / e-Book
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction Biography
Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of
Gulliver's Travels, the satiric fantasy that
quickly became a classic and has remained in print for
nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other
influential works, was a major political and religious
figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved for
his fierce protest against English exploitation of his
native Ireland. What is really known today about the
enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of
his life be separated from the fictions? In this deeply researched biography, 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 his
life—the one accepted until recently—was
deliberately misleading. Swift concealed aspects of himself
and his relationships, and other people in his life helped
to keep his secrets. Assembling suggestive clues, Damrosch re-narrates the events
of Swift's life while making vivid the sights, sounds, and
smells of his English and Irish surroundings.Through his own
words and those of a wide circle of friends, a complex Swift
emerges: a restless, combative, empathetic figure, a man of
biting wit and powerful mind, and a major figure in the
history of world letters.
No awards found for this book.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2025 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy