Jonathan Swift : Irish blow-in / Eugene Hammond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, Eugene, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Swift, Jonathan.

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

Authors, Irish.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 797 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University Of Delaware Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in (along with its companion, Jonathan Swift: Our Dean) aspires to be the most accurate and engaging critical biography of Jonathan Swift ever published. It builds on the thorough research of Irvin Ehrenpreis's highly regarded 1962-1983 three-volume biography, but reinterprets Swift's life and works by reassessing his childhood, stressing his exuberance, honestly portraying his intense affection for Esther Johnson (he called her "saucebox" and not "Stella" when she was in her twenties), and not projecting Swift's later-in-life angry behavior back onto his first forty-seven years" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 1667-1689: Blown In To Ireland 1

1 Born to the Protestant Ascendancy, and to His Own Father 3

2 Kidnapped 17

3 III Treatment from His Nearest Relations? 24

4 A Playful but Well-Disciplined Schoolboy 31

5 Acquiring the Prejudices of Education 35

6 Parody, Humor, and the Satirical Tripos Tradition 41

Part 2 1689-1699: Prolonged Adolescence 47

7 Wholesale Protestant Flight 49

8 The Temples, and Bridget and Esther Johnson 54

9 Impressing Sir William with Good Penmanship, Skilled Oral Reading, and Being a Good Listener 62

10 The Battle of the Boyne 71

11 Befriending Ten-Year-Old Esther Johnson 76

12 Life Mastered at Age Twenty-Five 88

13 Choosing His Grandfather's Career over His Father's 91

14 Your First Job Is Almost Always a Bad One 94

15 An Equivocating Dodge from Marriage 100

16 For the Time Being, Writing Trumps Service to the Church 106

17 Respected Secretary, but Already on the Wrong Side of Thirty 112

Part 3 1699-1704: Willows, Account Books, Taking Responsibility for Two Women Formerly In Service 125

18 With the Help of Lady Giffard 127

19 Professional Independence 134

20 Jettisoning Jane Waring 146

21 Rescuing Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley from Lives of Service 152

22 Political Theory, Never Forgetting Human Nature 156

23 Building a Comfortable Life in Ireland 166

24 Making a Laracor Cabin a Home 176

25 Swift the Historian 181

26 Throwing the Dice with a Tale of a Tub 184

27 Woops! Rev. Tisdall Proposes to Esther Johnson 189

28 After Three Prefatory Pieces, the Preface 193

29 Rethinking Dante's Divine Comedy 201

30 Digressing to the Core of Our Being 213

31 The Tale in Context 224

32 The Spider and the Bee 227

33 Stirring Up Spirituality 235

34 Planting Minefields in Your Own Path through Life 239

Part 4 1704-1710: Gaining Traction in the English Worlds of Politics And Of Literature 247

35 Serving the Irish Church 249

36 The Vicar of Laracor vs. the Freethinking Matthew Tindal 259

37 Union with the Wrong Dependent Kingdom 265

38 At the Age of Forty, a Career Jump-Start 270

39 Spilled Coffee 272

40 To Mischief Swift 278

41 The Coffee House Life 287

42 Sacrificing the Test Act for the First Fruits? 295

43 The Sensible Moderate's Manifesto 304

44 Inconveniencing Men of Quality 311

45 Swift a Projector? 318

46 Catching a Bit of the Spleen 329

47 The injured Lady, Déjà Vu 336

48 The Queen's Bounty Redux 340

49 At Play 342

50 Breathing Space in Ireland 349

51 Family and Friends 362

Part 5 1710-1711: Political and Personal Exhilaration 367

52 Home: England or Ireland? 369

53 The Politics of September 1710 377

54 He Understands Me, He Likes Me, He Respects Me (I'm Pretty Sure) 385

55 Sir Matthew Dudley's Extraordinary Letter 391

56 Extending the Queen's Bounty to Ireland 399

57 Suddenly, an Examiner 404

58 The Art of Political Lying 411

59 Cuffing the Duke of Marlborough, Slicing the Earl of Wharton 419

60 A Lost Christmas 435

61 The Examiner Cross-Examined 442

62 The Will of the People 450

63 Character Trumps Polities 455

64 Mano a Mano with the Duke of Marlborough 460

65 "Short Sighs" for Hetty and Laracor 467

66 An Ill-Considered Collection 471

67 Whom was Guiscard Trying to Kill? 479

68 I Begin to Be Heartily Weary 487

69 Exit, Declaring Victory 495

70 Walking for Health, Dressing for Court at the Vanhomrighs 498

71 Heat Wave 506

72 Relief; Rain, and a Holiday 516

Part 6 1711-1713: Swift's Pen (At Considerable Cost to Swift) Trumps Marlborough's Sword 519

73 Charismatic Jonathan 521

74 The Good Life at Windsor 530

75 Helping Jane, Distracting Critics of a Peace, and Some Wrong Steps 540

76 Every Ounce of Effort for a Peace 547

77 Twenty-Six Fatal Blackletter Lines 559

78 Tories and (Just Enough) Whigs Agree on a Peace 571

79 Success Sabotaged by the Shingles 590

80 Loyalty Test: Esther Johnson, Alice Hill, and Esther Vanhomrigh 604

81 Slouching Toward St. Patrick's 623

82 Tragic Climax 634

83 Dénouement 638

Part 7 1713-1714: Once More into the Breach 651

84 Hessy's Letters Crowd the Laracor Cottage 653

85 A Man Fit to Serve the Church? 662

86 Self-Assuring Self-Portraits 668

87 More Fun than an Author Ought to Have 679

88 Twenty Guineas for a Conversion 688

89 Historiographer Royal 690

90 Wanted: For the First But Not for the Last Time 695

91 Bad Tory Behavior in Ireland 701

92 On Most Issues, We Now Agree 705

93 Political Immobility, Amateur Poetics 707

94 Swift's Inner Scream Becomes Intolerable 713

95 Refuge at Letcombe Bassett 718

96 Yet Another Declaration of Independence 722

97 Broken Confidence Déjà vu 730

98 (Almost) Historiographer 736

99 Oxford/Bolingbroke Infighting Goes Exponential 741

100 Tour Hays of High Drama 746

101 In the Wake of Queen Anne's Death 750

102 Swearing Allegiance without Enthusiasm 758.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 761-770) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hammond, Eugene, 1947- author. Jonathan Swift

ISBN:

9781611496062

1611496063

OCLC:

920017788