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Jonathan Swift in the company of women / Louise Barnett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnett, Louise K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Misogyny in literature.
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745--Criticism and interpretation.
- Swift, Jonathan.
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745--Relations with women.
- Vanessa, 1690-1723.
- Vanessa.
- Johnson, Esther, 1681-1728.
- Johnson, Esther.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jonathan Swift was the subject of gossip and criticism in his own time concerning his relations with women and his representations of them in his writings. For over twenty years he regarded Esther Johnson, ""Stella,"" as ""his most valuable friend,"" yet he is reputed never to have seen her alone. From his time to our own there has been speculation that the two were secretly married--since their relationship seemed so inexplicable then and now. For thirteen of the years that Swift seemed committed to Stella as the acknowledged woman in his life, he maintained a clandestine--but apparently also
- Contents:
- Love dramas
- Stella: "A conjugall love without any conjugall act"
- Vanessa: the questions
- After Stella: the constant seraglio
- Maternity
- The question of misogyny
- Swift and women critics.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029335-7
- 0-19-534595-9
- 1-281-16271-X
- 1-4294-6904-8
- 9786611162719
- OCLC:
- 131205109
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