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008			140925s2013 usa 00 eng
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082	0		_a92 SWI
100	1		_aDamrosch, Leo
245	1	0	_aJonathan Swift _b: his life and his world _c/ Leo Damrosch
260			_aNew Haven _b: Yale University Press _c, 2013
300			_a573 p. _b: illus. _c; 22 cm.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505	0	0	_aPrologue -- Beginnings -- A patron and two mysteries -- "Long choosing, and beginning late" -- Moor Park once more -- The village and the castle -- London -- "A very positive young man " -- The scandalous Tub -- Swift and God -- First fruits -- The war and the Whigs -- Swift the Londoner -- At the summit -- The Journal to Stella --- Enter Vanessa -- Tory triumph -- Tory collapse -- Reluctant Dubliner -- Political peril -- The Irish countryside -- stella -- Vanessa in Ireland -- National hero -- The astonishing Travels -- Gulliver in England -- Disillusionment and loss -- Frustrated patroio -- Swift among the women -- The disgusting poems -- Waiting for the end -- Chronology -- List of abbreviations -- Notes -- Illustration credits -- Index.
520			_aLeo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's public version of his life -- the one accepted until recently -- was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed aspects of himself and his relationships, and other people in his life helped to keep his secrets. . Assembling suggestive clues, Damrosch re-narrates the events of Swift's life while making vivid the scents, sounds, and smells of his English and Irish surroundings.Through his own words and those of a wide circle of friends, a complex Swift emerges: a restless, combative, empathetic figure, a man of biting wit and powerful mind, and a major figure in the history of world letters.
600	1	4	_aSwift, Jonathan _d, 1667-1745
650			_aAuthors, Irish _y-18th Century _v--Biography
942			_cMO
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