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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465371003321

Autore

Barnett Louise K

Titolo

Jonathan Swift in the company of women [[electronic resource] /] / Louise Barnett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-534595-9

1-281-16271-X

1-4294-6904-8

9786611162719

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Disciplina

828/.509

Soggetti

Misogyny in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Love dramas -- Stella: "A conjugall love without any conjugall act" -- Vanessa: the questions -- After Stella: the constant seraglio -- Maternity -- The question of misogyny -- Swift and women critics.

Sommario/riassunto

Jonathan Swift was the subject of gossip and criticism in his own time concerning his relations with women and his representations of them in his writings. For over twenty years he regarded Esther Johnson, ""Stella,"" as ""his most valuable friend,"" yet he is reputed never to have seen her alone. From his time to our own there has been speculation that the two were secretly married--since their relationship seemed so inexplicable then and now. For thirteen of the years that Swift seemed committed to Stella as the acknowledged woman in his life, he maintained a clandestine--but apparently also