Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift

Author: Leo Damrosch

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 0300164998

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Draws on discoveries made in the past three decades to paint a new portrait of the satirist, speculating on his parentage, love life, and relationships while claiming that the public image he projected was intentionally misleading.

Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift

Author: Eugene Hammond

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-04-04

Total Pages: 841

ISBN-13: 1611496101

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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 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.