Jonathan Swift
Subtitle: Irish Blow-In
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: Mar 22, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 822
ISBN-13: 9781611496062
Description: "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" --
Notes: Source title: Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In