{"product_id":"jonathan-swift-9780300205411","title":"Jonathan Swift","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Damrosch’s approach is forensic. . .For me the Swift who emerges from these patient investigations is a more rounded personality.”—George Walden, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e -- George Walden * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e‘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 a sure touch.’—Thomas Keymer, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e -- Thomas Keymer * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“Convincing and vivid. . . . Damrosch has . . . let us glimpse the human roots of Swift’s sometimes inhuman irony.”—John Mullan, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e -- John Mullan * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e“Damrosch is incisive about Swift’s personality . . . and writes with fine Swiftian clarity, but does not simplify. He acknowledges that, investigating Swift, you run into a revolving door of contradictions. . . . But Damrosch sees him, rightly, not just as a tragic figure but as a fearless thinker whose works are an antidote to optimism's happy lies.” — John Carey, \u003ci\u003eLondon Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e -- John Carey * The Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Damrosch] writes elegantly, has exactly the right mix of empathy and detachment, and is admirably open-minded in his approach to complex evidence – some of it the product of very new scholarship. . . this will be the definitive life of Swift for years to come.”—Jonathan Bate, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jonathan Bate * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e‘. . .an oxygenated account that blows fresh air on Swift, the most readable account in recent times’ —Brean Hammond, \u003ci\u003eHistory Today\u003c\/i\u003e -- Brean Hammond * History Today *\u003cbr\u003e'The book, far from being a dry academic analysis based on sketchy records, is a romp through the years when Britain became established as a world power. . .Damrosch writes with wry humour and clarity of detail, often cuttingly disputing the theories of previous Swift biographers. To read this hefty book is to get a highly enjoyable education.’—Claire Looby, The Irish Times -- Claire Looby * The Irish Times *","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864335888727,"sku":"9780300205411","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300205411.jpg?v=1722271471","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jonathan-swift-9780300205411","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}