Jonathan Swift [electronic resource] : his life and his world / Leo Damrosch.

9780300165678 electronic book
9780300164992

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.

English

1 online resource (586 pages) : illustrations.

PR3726 .D27 2013eb

828/.509 B

"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 scents, 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." -- Publisher's description.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.

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