Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel / John Stubbs.

[London] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016.©2016

Stubbs, John, 1977- author.

01-01-2016

739 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black & white and colour), portraits ; 25 cm

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Ireland

Authors

Biography

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Biographies.

Authors, Irish -- 18th century -- Biography.

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Jonathan Swift's world-famous works - from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal - are unparalleled in their piercing critique of modern society. But Jonathan Swift was a man of great 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.

1.Ireland and the Civil Wars -- 2.Upbringing -- 3.Abuses of Learning and Religion -- 4.The Temples and the Tub -- 5.Recovering Esther -- 6.Drifting with Whigs, 1702-1709 -- 7.Recruited by Tories, 1710-1714 -- 8.The Phantom Academy -- 9.Small Dominions -- 10.Bursting Bubbles -- 11.Dean Gulliver -- 12.Indecency and Indignation -- 13.The Last of the Gold -- 14.Sanctuary.

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