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.
... and the King's behavior . But throughout Gulliver's Travels Gulliver has given unthinking respect to anyone in author- ity , regardless of the moral or immoral foundations of that authority . Gulliver in this book has shown his Emmanuel ...
... 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 Harris ( Oxford , 1983 ) , pp . 1-36 Troyer , Howard William , Ned Ward of Grub ... Swift and Holland ' Bibliography 225.
... Swift : Papers from the Third Münster Symposium on 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, which featured Gulliver's sojourns with tiny people six inches tall and with ... in author Swift's time. Commentators recognize this work as satirical commentary on events and people in Swift's ...
... Author?” 109–10. On this “game” in the Restoration and early eighteenth century, see Love, English Clandestine Satire, 70, 74, 158–76. 91. Richard Bentley, Dissertation, in Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Works, ed. Angus Ross and ...
... Jonathan Swift, ed. Marcus Walsh (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), where the list of “Treatises ... in Author/Publisher Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, ed. Robin Myers and Michael Harris ...