Jonathan Swift : Irish Blow-In / Eugene Hammond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, Eugene, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Authors, Irish.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (654 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newark, Delaware : University of Delaware Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Jonathan Swift: Our Dean (along with its companion, Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in) aspires to be the most accurate and engaging critical biography of Jonathan Swift ever. It builds on the thorough research of Irvin Ehrenpreis's highly regarded 1962-1983 three-volume biography, but re-interprets Swift's life and works by re-assessing his 1714-1720 [period] repudiating the pretender while remaining friends with many who did not, by acknowledging that he likely had a physical affair with Esther Vanhomrigh between 1719 and 1723, by questioning whether in any sense he was a misanthrope, by noting his real care for Esther Johnson in her final illness, and by emphasizing the mutual love between Swift and his caretakers during his final difficult years."--.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

The Author to the Reader

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources

Part 1: 1667-1689: Blown in to Ireland

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

2: Kidnapped

3: Ill Treatment from His Nearest Relations?

4: A Playful but Well-Disciplined Schoolboy

5: Acquiring the Prejudices of Education

6: Parody, Humor, and the Satirical Tripos Tradition

Part 2: 1689-1699: Prolonged Adolescence

7: Wholesale Protestant Flight

8: The Temples, and Bridget and Esther Johnson

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

10: The Battle of the Boyne

11: Befriending Ten-Year-Old Esther Johnson

12: Life Mastered at Age Twenty-Five

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

14: Your First Job Is Almost Always a Bad One

15: An Equivocating Dodge from Marriage

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

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

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

18: With the Help of Lady Giffard

19: Professional Independence

20: Jettisoning Jane Waring

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

22: Political Theory, Never Forgetting Human Nature

23: Building a Comfortable Life in Ireland

24: Making a Laracor Cabin a Home

25: Swift the Historian

26: Throwing the Dice with A Tale of a Tub

27: Woops! Rev. Tisdall Proposes to Esther Johnson

28: After Three Prefatory Pieces, the Preface

29: Rethinking Dante's Divine Comedy

30: Digressing to the Core of Our Being

31: The Tale in Context

32: The Spider and the Bee

33: Stirring Up Spirituality.

34: Planting Minefields in Your Own Path through Life

Part 4: 1704-1710: After a Rural Retreat with Esther Johnson: Gaining Traction in the English Worlds of Politics and of Literature

35: Serving the Irish Church

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

37: Union with the Wrong Dependent Kingdom

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

39: Spilled Coffee

40: To Mischief Swift

41: The Coffee House Life

42: Sacrificing the Test Act for the First Fruits?

43: The Sensible Moderate's Manifesto

44: Inconveniencing Men of Quality

45: Swift a Projector?

46: Catching a Bit of the Spleen

47: The Injured Lady, Déjà Vu

48: The Queen's Bounty Redux

49: At Play

50: Breathing Space in Ireland

51: Family and Friends

Part 5: 1710-1711: Political and Personal Exhilaration

52: Home: England or Ireland?

53: The Politics of September 1710

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

55: Sir Matthew Dudley's Extraordinary Letter

56: Extending the Queen's Bounty to Ireland

57: Suddenly, an Examiner

58: The Art of Political Lying

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

60: A Lost Christmas

61: The Examiner Cross-Examined

62: The Will of the People

63: Character Trumps Politics

64: Mano a Mano with the Duke of Marlborough

65: "Short Sighs" for Hetty and Laracor

66: An Ill-Considered Collection

67: Whom Was Guiscard Trying to Kill?

68: I Begin to Be Heartily Weary

69: Exit, Declaring Victory

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

71: Heat Wave

72: Relief: Rain, and a Holiday

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

73: Charismatic Jonathan

74: The Good Life at Windsor.

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

76: Every Ounce of Effort for a Peace

77: Twenty-Six Fatal Blackletter Lines

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

79: Success Sabotaged by the Shingles

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

81: Slouching Toward St. Patrick's

82: Tragic Climax

83: Dénouement

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

84: Hessy's Letters Crowd the Laracor Cottage

85: A Man Fit to Serve the Church?

86: Self-Assuring Self-Portraits

87: More Fun than an Author Ought to Have

88: Twenty Guineas for a Conversion

89: Historiographer Royal

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

91: Bad Tory Behavior in Ireland

92: On Most Issues, We Now Agree

93: Political Immobility, Amateur Poetics

94: Swift's Inner Scream Becomes Intolerable

95: Refuge at Letcombe Bassett

96: Yet Another Declaration of Independence

97: Broken Confidence Déjà Vu

98: (Almost) Historiographer

99: Oxford/Bolingbroke Infighting Goes Exponential

100: Four Days of High Drama

101: In the Wake of Queen Anne's Death

102: Swearing Allegiance without Enthusiasm

Bibliography

About the Author.

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ISBN:

9781644530412

1644530414

OCLC:

942753127