A political biography of Jonathan Swift
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A political biography of Jonathan Swift
(Eighteenth-century political biographies, no. 2)
Routledge, 2016, c2008
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Originally published: London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index
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Description
Most famous as the author of "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the most important propagandists and satirists of his day. This study seeks to contextualize Swift within the political arena of his day.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: '"The Church had never such a Writer"'
- Chapter 1 Swift, War and Ireland: 'An Heap of Conspiracies, Rebellions, Murders, Massacres, Revolutions, Banishments'
- Chapter 2 Courting the Favour of the Great:
- A Discourse
- and
- A Tale of a Tub
- Chapter 3 'An Entire Friend to the Established Church': Churchman among the Statesmen and Wits
- Chapter 4 The Echo of the Coffee House and the Voice of the Kingdom: Propagandist for a Peace
- Chapter 5 'Do I become a
- Slave
- in Six Hours, by Crossing the Channel?': The Dean, the Drapier and Irish Politics
- Conclusion: 'Upon this Great Foundation of Misanthropy'
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