Jonathan Swift : our dean /
Hammond, Eugene, 1947-
Jonathan Swift : our dean / Eugene Hammond. - Newark [Delaware] : University of Delaware Press ; (c)2016. Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xviii, 821 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Jonathan Swift: Our Dean (along with its companion, Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in) aspires to be the most accurate and engaging critical biography of Jonathan Swift ever. It builds on the thorough research of Irvin Ehrenpreis's highly regarded 1962-1983 three-volume biography, but re-interprets Swift's life and works by re-assessing his 1714-1720 [period] repudiating the pretender while remaining friends with many who did not, by acknowledging that he likely had a physical affair with Esther Vanhomrigh between 1719 and 1723, by questioning whether in any sense he was a misanthrope, by noting his real care for Esther Johnson in her final illness, and by emphasizing the mutual love between Swift and his caretakers during his final difficult years."--
9781611496109 9781644530382
2016016927
Authors, Irish--18th century--Biography.
Electronic Books.
PR3726 / .J663 2016
Jonathan Swift : our dean / Eugene Hammond. - Newark [Delaware] : University of Delaware Press ; (c)2016. Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xviii, 821 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Jonathan Swift: Our Dean (along with its companion, Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in) aspires to be the most accurate and engaging critical biography of Jonathan Swift ever. It builds on the thorough research of Irvin Ehrenpreis's highly regarded 1962-1983 three-volume biography, but re-interprets Swift's life and works by re-assessing his 1714-1720 [period] repudiating the pretender while remaining friends with many who did not, by acknowledging that he likely had a physical affair with Esther Vanhomrigh between 1719 and 1723, by questioning whether in any sense he was a misanthrope, by noting his real care for Esther Johnson in her final illness, and by emphasizing the mutual love between Swift and his caretakers during his final difficult years."--
9781611496109 9781644530382
2016016927
Authors, Irish--18th century--Biography.
Electronic Books.
PR3726 / .J663 2016