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Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World

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Description for Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World Paperback.
Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography:  The life of satirist Jonathan Swift, written by a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature

“Superb. . . . Damrosch’s outstanding book has raised Swift’s provocative genius to life.”—Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal
 
Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300205411
SKU
9780300205411
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About Leo Damrosch
Leo Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Research Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of nine books, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius, a National Book Award Finalist. He lives in Newton, MA.

Reviews for Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
“Damrosch’s approach is forensic. . .For me the Swift who emerges from these patient investigations is a more rounded personality.”—George Walden, The Times
George Walden
The Times
‘If Damrosch follows Ehrenpreis in anything, it’s in the ambition, indicated by his ‘life and world’ subtitle, to ground biography in social context. He does that job with efficiency and ... Read more

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