{"product_id":"jonathan-swift-irish-blow-in-9781644530405","title":"Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in\u003c\/i\u003e covers the arc of the first half of Jonathan Swift’s life, offering fresh details of the contentment and exuberance of his childhood, of the support he received from his grandmother, of his striking affection for Esther Johnson from the time she was ten years old (his pet name for her in her twenties was “saucebox”), of his precocious entry into English politics with his \u003ci\u003eContests and Dissensions\u003c\/i\u003e pamphlet, of his brilliant and much misunderstood \u003ci\u003eTale of a Tub\u003c\/i\u003e, and of his naive determination to do well both as a vicar of the small parish of Laracor in Ireland and as a writer for the Tory administration trying to pull England out of debt by ending the war England was engaged in with France.\u003cbr\u003e I do not share with past biographers the sense that Swift had a deprived childhood. I do not share the suspicion that most of Swift’s enmities were politically motivated. I do not feel critical of him because he was often fastidious with his money. I do not think he was insincere about his religious faith. His pride, his sexual interests, his often shocking or uninhibited language, his instinct for revenge – emphasized by many previous biographers – were all fundamental elements of his being, but elements that he either used for rhetorical effect, or that he tried to keep in check, and that he felt that religion helped him to keep in check. Swift had as firm a conviction as did Freud that we are born with wayward tendencies; unlike Freud, though, he saw both religion and civil society as necessary and helpful checks on those wayward tendencies, and he (frequently, but certainly not always) acknowledged that he shared those tendencies with the rest of us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis biography, in two books, \u003ci\u003eJonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJonathan Swift: Our Dean\u003c\/i\u003e, will differ from most literary biographies in that it does not aim to show how Swift’s life illuminates his writings, but rather how and why Swift wrote in order to live the life he wanted to live. I have liberally quoted Swift’s own words in this biography because his inventive expression of ideas, both in his public works and in his private letters, was what has made him a unique and compelling figure in the history of literature. I hope in these two books to come closer than past biographies to capturing how it felt to Swift himself to live his life.\u003cbr\u003e Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Any decent biography of a writer will make you want to go back to the work, and Hammond achieves this.\"— Eighteenth Century Fiction\u003cbr\u003e \"The first study to consider here is the two-volume life of Swift by Eugene Hammond. These are magisterial volumes.\"— Studies in English Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Intro\u003cbr\u003e Contents\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e The Author to the Reader\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources\u003cbr\u003e PART 1: 1667-1689: BLOWN IN TO IRELAND\u003cbr\u003e 1: Born to the Protestant Ascendancy, and to His Own Father\u003cbr\u003e 2: Kidnapped\u003cbr\u003e 3: Ill Treatment from His Nearest Relations?\u003cbr\u003e 4: A Playful but Well-Disciplined Schoolboy\u003cbr\u003e 5: Acquiring the Prejudices of Education\u003cbr\u003e 6: Parody, Humor, and the Satirical Tripos Tradition\u003cbr\u003e PART 2: 1689-1699: PROLONGED ADOLESCENCE\u003cbr\u003e 7: Wholesale Protestant Flight\u003cbr\u003e 8: The Temples, and Bridget and Esther Johnson 9: Impressing Sir William with Good Penmanship, Skilled Oral Reading, and Being a Good Listener\u003cbr\u003e 10: The Battle of the Boyne\u003cbr\u003e 11: Befriending Ten-Year-Old Esther Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 12: Life Mastered at Age Twenty-Five\u003cbr\u003e 13: Choosing His Grandfather's Career over His Father's\u003cbr\u003e 14: Your First Job Is Almost Always a Bad One\u003cbr\u003e 15: An Equivocating Dodge from Marriage\u003cbr\u003e 16: For the Time Being, Writing Trumps Service to the Church\u003cbr\u003e 17: Respected Secretary, but Already on the Wrong Side of Thirty\u003cbr\u003e PART 3: 1699-1704: WILLOWS, ACCOUNT BOOKS, TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR TWO WOMEN FORMERLY IN SERVICE\u003cbr\u003e 18: With the Help of Lady Giffard\u003cbr\u003e 19: Professional Independence\u003cbr\u003e 20: Jettisoning Jane Waring\u003cbr\u003e 21: Rescuing Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley from Lives of Service\u003cbr\u003e 22: Political Theory, Never Forgetting Human Nature\u003cbr\u003e 23: Building a Comfortable Life in Ireland\u003cbr\u003e 24: Making a Laracor Cabin a Home\u003cbr\u003e 25: Swift the Historian\u003cbr\u003e 26: Throwing the Dice with A Tale of a Tub\u003cbr\u003e 27: Woops! Rev. Tisdall Proposes to Esther Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 28: After Three Prefatory Pieces, the Preface\u003cbr\u003e 29: Rethinking Dante's Divine Comedy\u003cbr\u003e 30: Digressing to the Core of Our Being\u003cbr\u003e 31: The Tale in Context 32: The Spider and the Bee\u003cbr\u003e 33: Stirring Up Spirituality\u003cbr\u003e 34: Planting Minefields in Your Own Path through Life\u003cbr\u003e PART 4: 1704-1710: AFTER A RURAL RETREAT WITH ESTHER JOHNSON: GAINING TRACTION IN THE ENGLISH WORLDS OF POLITICS AND OF LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003e 35: Serving the Irish Church\u003cbr\u003e 36: The Vicar of Laracor vs. the Freethinking Matthew Tindal\u003cbr\u003e 37: Union with the Wrong Dependent Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e 38: At the Age of Forty, a Career Jump-Start\u003cbr\u003e 39: Spilled Coffee\u003cbr\u003e 40: To Mischief Swift\u003cbr\u003e 41: The Coffee House Life\u003cbr\u003e 42: Sacrificing the Test Act for the First Fruits? 43: The Sensible Moderate's Manifesto\u003cbr\u003e 44: Inconveniencing Men of Quality\u003cbr\u003e 45: Swift a Projector?\u003cbr\u003e 46: Catching a Bit of the Spleen\u003cbr\u003e 47: The Injured Lady, Déjà Vu\u003cbr\u003e 48: The Queen's Bounty Redux\u003cbr\u003e 49: At Play\u003cbr\u003e 50: Breathing Space in Ireland\u003cbr\u003e 51: Family and Friends\u003cbr\u003e PART 5: 1710-1711: POLITICAL AND PERSONAL EXHILERATION\u003cbr\u003e 52: Home: England or Ireland?\u003cbr\u003e 53: The Politics of September 1710\u003cbr\u003e 54: He Understands Me, He Likes Me, He Respects Me (I'm Pretty Sure)\u003cbr\u003e 55: Sir Matthew Dudley's Extraordinary Letter\u003cbr\u003e 56: Extending the Queen's Bounty to Ireland\u003cbr\u003e 57: Suddenly, an Examiner\u003cbr\u003e 58: The Art of Political Lying\u003cbr\u003e 59. Cuffing the Duke of Marlborough, Slicing the Earl of Wharton\u003cbr\u003e 60. A Lost Christmas\u003cbr\u003e 61. The Examiner Cross-Examined \u003cbr\u003e 62. The Will of the People\u003cbr\u003e 63. Character Trumps Politics\u003cbr\u003e 64. \u003ci\u003eMano a Mano\u003c\/i\u003e with the Duke of Marlborough \u003cbr\u003e 65. \"Short Sighs\" for Hetty and Laracor\u003cbr\u003e 66. An Ill-Considered Collection\u003cbr\u003e 67. Whom Was Guiscard Trying to Kill?\u003cbr\u003e 68. I Begin to Be Heartily Weary \u003cbr\u003e 69. Exit, Declaring Victory\u003cbr\u003e 70. Walking for Health, Dressing for Court at the Vanhomrighs\u003cbr\u003e 71. Heat Wave\u003cbr\u003e 72. Relief: Rain, and a Holiday\u003cbr\u003e PART 6: 1711-1713: SWIFT'S PEN (AT CONSIDERABLE COST TO SWIFT) TRUMPS MARLBOROUGH'S SWORD\u003cbr\u003e 73. Charismatic Jonathan\u003cbr\u003e 74. The Good Life at Windsor\u003cbr\u003e 75. Helping Jane, Distracting Critics of a Peace, and Some Wrong Steps\u003cbr\u003e 76. Every Ounce of Effort for a Peace\u003cbr\u003e 77. Twenty-Six Fatal Blackletter Lines\u003cbr\u003e 78. Tories and (Just Enough) Whigs Agree on a Peace\u003cbr\u003e 79. Success Sabotaged by the Shingles\u003cbr\u003e 80. Loyalty Test: Esther Johnson, Alice Hill, and Ester Vanhomrigh\u003cbr\u003e 81. Slouching Toward St. Patrick's\u003cbr\u003e 82. Tragic Climax\u003cbr\u003e 83. Denouement\u003cbr\u003e PART 7: 1713-1714: ONCE MORE INTO THE BREACH\u003cbr\u003e 84. Hessy's Letters Crowd the Laracor Cottage\u003cbr\u003e 85. A Man Fit to Serve the Church?\u003cbr\u003e 86. Self-Assuring Self-Portraits\u003cbr\u003e 87. More Fun than an Author Ought to Have\u003cbr\u003e 88. Twenty Guineas for a Conversion\u003cbr\u003e 89. Historiographer Royal\u003cbr\u003e 90. Wanted: For the First But Not for the Last Time\u003cbr\u003e 91. Bad Tory Behavior in Ireland\u003cbr\u003e 92. On Most Issues, We Now Agree\u003cbr\u003e 93. Political Immobility, Amateur Poetics\u003cbr\u003e 94. Swift's Inner Scream Becomes Intolerable\u003cbr\u003e 95. Refuge at Letcombe Bassett\u003cbr\u003e 96. Yet Another Declaration of Independence\u003cbr\u003e 97. Broken Confidence Deja Vu\u003cbr\u003e 98. (Almost) Historiographer\u003cbr\u003e 99. Oxford\/Bolingbroke Infighting Goes Exponential\u003cbr\u003e 100. Four Days of High Drama\u003cbr\u003e 101. In the Wake of Queen Anne's Death\u003cbr\u003e 102. Swearing Allegiance without Enthusiasm\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e About the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Delaware Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041917272407,"sku":"9781644530405","price":72.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781644530405.jpg?v=1750952198","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jonathan-swift-irish-blow-in-9781644530405","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}