Jonathan Swift : Our Dean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, Eugene.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Irish--18th century.

Authors, Irish.

Literature and society--Ireland.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (673 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : 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

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources

Part 1: 1714-1720: Teaching Knightley Chetwode How to Behave

Chapter 1: Beached on the Liffey

Chapter 2: Annéantissement, Then Resilience

Chapter 3: Settling In

Chapter 4: Hessy in Dublin

Chapter 5: Truly Home

Chapter 6: "The Public Wind Full in My Teeth"

Chapter 7: Surveillance

Chapter 8: Unalloyed Kindness

Chapter 9: Jacobite?

Chapter 10: From Mentee to Mentor

Chapter 11: How Do You Combat Unlimited Power?

Chapter 12: Swift as Chief Executive Officer

Chapter 13: Clear, Practical Advice

Chapter 14: Political Sermons of the 1720s

Chapter 15: Trying, Despite the Political Odds, to Get the Right People into the Right Places

Chapter 16: The Esther-Swift-Esther Triangle Tests All Three of Its Vertices

Chapter 17: Forty-Seven-Year-Old Swift and Twenty-Six-Year-Old Pope

Chapter 18: Swift's Web of Sustaining Irish Friends

Chapter 19: The Earl of Oxford Walks Out of the Tower

Chapter 20: A New Generation of Friends

Chapter 21: From Essentially Cheerful to Essentially Angry

Chapter 22: Trying to Let Go of the Earl of Oxford

Chapter 23: Coffee

Chapter 24: Reaffirming Respect for Esther Johnson

Chapter 25: Restoking the Publication Fires

Part 2: 1720-1726: "I Attempted to Rise, but Was [at first] Not Able To Stir"1

Chapter 26: Struggling with Illness

Chapter 27: Free Again to Speak?

Chapter 28: In the Shadow of Molly's Decline, Hessy Living a Half-Life with Swift

Chapter 29: True to Both?

Chapter 30: Looking for a Course

Chapter 31: The First European Microlender

Chapter 32: Chief Justice Whitshed and Robinson Crusoe Beget Gulliver's Travels

Chapter 33: Keeping Hessy at a Distance to Concentrate on Gulliver's Travels.

Chapter 34: Fair to Middling Poems, and an Elegy for the Duke of Marlborough

Chapter 35: A Humbling Year: 1723

Chapter 36: A Fourth Vanhomrigh Succumbs to Consumption

Chapter 37: Getting Away

Chapter 38: Reaffirming Commitment to and Respect for Esther Johnson, This Time Doing it Well

Chapter 39: Christmas at Quilca, Steeped in the Mindset of Gulliver's Travels

Chapter 40: Standing Up to British Presumption

Chapter 41: "One [Deaf] Man in his Shirt" Refusing to Be Intimidated

Chapter 42: Against All Odds, Stymying Wood and Walpole

Chapter 43: Wielding Pickaxes, Digging Peat, Re-Courting (and Sealing his Love for) Esther Johnson

Chapter 44: David Fells Goliath

Chapter 45: Preparing for England, 1726

Part 3: 1726-1728: Choosing Esther Johnson over Professional Opportunity in England

Chapter 46: Tête-à-Tête with Sir Robert Walpole

Chapter 47: Caring for Esther Johnson

Chapter 48: A Voyage to Lilliput

Chapter 49: A Voyage to Brobdingnag

Chapter 50: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan

Chapter 51: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms

Chapter 52: Aftermath

Chapter 53: What Did Swift Believe?

Chapter 54: In Ireland while Gulliver's Travels Began to Do Its Work

Chapter 55: Last Visit to England

Chapter 56: Swift's Literary Career Capped with Accolades in Paris (Not)

Chapter 57: Choosing Patty Rolt over Alexander Pope

Chapter 58: King Lear with a Sense of Humoron the Heath at Holyhead

Chapter 59: Returning to Esther Johnson, and in Consequence, to Ireland

Chapter 60: Losing Esther Johnson in Her Prime

Part 4: 1728-1731: Premature Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift

Chapter 61: Even Without Esther Johnson, Deciding to Stay in Ireland

Chapter 62: Sarah Harding Redivivus

Chapter 63: The Intelligencer-Full Talent and Vigor, But Unsustained.

Chapter 64: Eight Months with the Achesons

Chapter 65: Without Esther Johnson and Archbishop King, Ungoverned

Chapter 66: Rough Drafts for A Modest Proposal

Chapter 67: Drapier's Hill

Chapter 68: A Modest Proposal and a Stunningly Modest Response

Chapter 69: OK, if Nobody Will Listen . . .

Chapter 70: The Triumfeminate and the Pilkingtons

Chapter 71: Libels and Epistles

Chapter 72: Swift's First (But Not His Last) "Freedom of the City" Fiasco

Chapter 73: Final Visit to a Couple about to Separate

Chapter 74: Ghost Writing for Captain Creichton

Chapter 75: Letters and Fun

Chapter 76: Snow White (Laetitia Pilkington) and the Seven Dwarfs (Ten Clergymen)

Chapter 77: Incendiary in Politics, Loving as a Friend, but Sometimes Confusing the Two

Chapter 78: Let's Try a Comic Poem about My Death

Part 5: 1732-1745: Internal Monitor Not Always Engaged

Chapter 79: The Bishops Get Their Due

Chapter 80: Be Wary of Presbyterians, But More Wary of Americans

Chapter 81: Everybody Poops

Chapter 82: Fully Home in the Deanery

Chapter 83: Financial Security

Chapter 84: Life with Laetitia Pilkington, 1732-1733

Chapter 85: Fighting Robert Walpole through Local Elections

Chapter 86: With No Parliament in Session, Life Is Good in Dublin

Chapter 87: Parliament Returns

Chapter 88: Swift's Better Business Bureau

Chapter 89: Capping an Otherwise Successful Year by Being Threatened by an MP

Chapter 90: Stepping Aside for the Next Generation

Chapter 91: Still Able to Rise to the Occasion

Chapter 92: The Good Martha Whiteway

Chapter 93: Disagreeable Quilca, Agreeable Martha Whiteway

Chapter 94: One More Hopeful Young Man Taken

Chapter 95: Jailed Printers Revive Swift's Pen

Chapter 96: Difficult, But Still with a Sense of Humor

Chapter 97: Badges for Beggars.

Chapter 98: Publishing the History of Queen Anne's Ministry (Not)

Chapter 99: Humility Recommended and Practiced

Chapter 100: Distorting the Record

Chapter 101: Swift's Guide to Domestic Guerilla Warfare

Chapter 102: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Chapter 103: Swift's Will

Chapter 104: Last Glimpses of Swift

Chapter 105: Loving Care: John Lyon, Martha Whiteway, Anne Ridgeway

Chapter 106: Our Dean

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ISBN:

9781644530382

1644530384

OCLC:

1191082411