02464nam 2200577 a 450 991079223250332120230721015335.00-19-534595-91-281-16271-X1-4294-6904-89786611162719(CKB)2560000000295624(EBL)415459(OCoLC)131205109(SSID)ssj0000186097(PQKBManifestationID)11181157(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000186097(PQKBWorkID)10218822(PQKB)11140474(StDuBDS)EDZ0000034446(MiAaPQ)EBC415459(Au-PeEL)EBL415459(CaPaEBR)ebr10177898(CaONFJC)MIL116271(EXLCZ)99256000000029562420060227d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJonathan Swift in the company of women[electronic resource] /Louise BarnettOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (238 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-518866-7 0-19-985106-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 alsoMisogyny in literatureMisogyny in literature.828/.509Barnett Louise K465258MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792232503321Jonathan Swift in the company of women3774291UNINA