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Glendinning, Victoria

 
9780805061680: Jonathan Swift: A Portrait
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0805061681 ISBN 13: 9780805061680
Verlag: Henry Holt and Co., 1999

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A prize-winning biographer tells the story of the immortal Swift.

Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer, and wit, Swift is the master of shock. His furious satirical responses to the corruption and hypocrisy he saw around him in private and public life in eighteenth-century England and Ireland have every relevance for our own times. His black imagination, and his preoccupation with the foulness that lies beneath the thin veneer of artifice and civilization, gave a new adjective-Swiftian-to the lexicon of criticism. Jonathan Swift is best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, and like his Gulliver in the land of Lilliput, Swift is a problem in perspective and scale. Victoria Glinning has taken a literary zoom lens to illuminate this proud and intractable man. She investigates at close range the main events and relationships of Swift's life, providing a compelling and provocative portrait set in a rich tapestry of controversy and paradox. Yeats said famously that he saw Swift round every corner, that his ghost survived.

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Victoria Glinning is the highly praised author of biographies of Vita Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell, Elizabeth Bowen, Rebecca West, and Anthony Trollope (winner of the Whitbread Award in 1992). She lives in London.

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Verlag
Henry Holt and Co.
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805061681
ISBN 13 
9780805061680
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
324
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