Impeccably researched and beautifully told, in Jonathan Swift Stubbs has found the perfect subject for this masterfully told biography of a reluctant rebel—a voice of withering disenchantment unrivaled in English.
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.
... in author- ity , regardless of the moral or immoral foundations of that authority . Gulliver in this book has shown his Emmanuel College inclinations : " My Lord [ Munodi ] was pleased to represent me as a great Admirer of Projects ...
... Swift informs Stella that a printer was arrested for a “speech” by nottingham, but this “speech” is not the same ... in Author/Publisher Relations During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, ed. robin Myers and Michael harris ...
... in Author / Publisher Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries , ed . by Robin Myers and Michael ... Jonathan Swift , ed . by Hermann J. Real and Heinz J. Vienken ( Munich , 1985 ) , pp . 305-19 Vivanti , Corrado ...
“An interesting and at times surprising account of Churchill's tastes as a reader…many of [these] nuggets will be new even to Churchill junkies.”—TheWall Street Journal This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we ...
... Jonathan Swift , edited by Hermann J. Real and Helgard Stöver - Leidig , 157– 177. Munich : Wilhelm Fink Verlag , 1998 . " Swift's Relations with the London Book Trade to 1714. ” In Author / Pub- lisher Relations During the Eighteenth ...
... Swift, Jonathan, Voyages de Capitaine Lemuel Gulliver, trans. by Abbé Desfontaines (Paris, Amsterdam, 1787) Swift ... in Author/ Publisher Relations During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, ed. by Robin Myers and Michael ...
... Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Works, ed. Angus Ross and David Woolley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) ... Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), 1:100, where Swift admits to having read the ...
... Swift , Jonathan . The Lady's Dressing Room ( London : J. Roberts , 1732 ) . Swift , Jonathan . Selected Prose and ... In Author / Publisher Relations During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries , ed . Robin Myers and Michael ...