LEADER 03389nam 22004693 450 001 9910829883203321 005 20230729060225.0 010 $a1-118-95720-2 010 $a1-118-95722-9 035 $a(CKB)4330000000007687 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7276011 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7276011 035 $a(EXLCZ)994330000000007687 100 $a20230729d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Life of Jonathan Swift 210 1$aNewark :$cJohn Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,$d2023. 210 4$dİ2023. 215 $a1 online resource (478 pages) 225 1 $aWiley Blackwell Critical Biographies Series 311 $a1-118-95723-7 327 $aBrought over to Ireland in a band-box 1667-1689 -- Moor Park 1689-1692 -- Into the church, without being driven 1692-1698 -- Laracor and London 1698-1704 -- A tale of a tub 1704 -- Arguments about Christianity 1704-1709 -- Writing for power 1709-1712 -- The life of a spider 1711-1712 -- Journal to Stella 1710-1713 -- Preferment, barely 1712-1714 -- But why obscurely here alone? 1713-1714 -- Living out of the world 1714-1718 -- Second wind 1719-1723 -- Mr. Drapier 1723-1725 -- Several remote nations 1721-1726 -- Poor floating Isle 1726-1729 -- Market hill -- A kind of knack at rhyme 1730-1733 -- We are all slaves and knaves and fools 1732-1735 -- Drawing room and back stairs 1735-1736 -- Silence 1737-1745. 330 $a"What we know directly of Swift's family history and childhood comes mostly from an unfinished ten-page manuscript account he wrote in later life called "Family of Swift," an eccentric and undependable document which nevertheless tells a story worth following. Swift's cousin once removed, Deane Swift, first printed this paper in 1755, along with his own additions and notes, saying that Swift wrote it sometime in the late 1720s, though more likely it was ten years later, when Swift was about 71. The narrative is characteristically detached in its third-person form but stuck in with shards of opinion, also characteristic: "a good deal of the Shrew in her Countenance." The first half of the account is devoted to his forebears on the Swift side, particularly his admired grandfather Thomas, who died some years before Swift was born, and his own part of the story cuts off when he is little more than thirty. Some of the details are wrong, as if he had worked purely from memory-always bad and getting worse by the time of this writing--though deliberate misrepresentation has been suggested too, unpersuasively if in some ways understandably: Swift did have a history of talking nonsense about his origins, in ways perhaps not always quite intended to be seen as he had been born in England, apparently because Swift told him so"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aWiley Blackwell Critical Biographies Series 606 $aAuthors, Irish$y18th century$vBiography 606 $aSatirists, Irish$y18th century$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, Irish 615 0$aSatirists, Irish 676 $a828/.5209 676 $aB 700 $aLockwood$b Thomas$0193634 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910829883203321 996 $aThe Life of Jonathan Swift$94106594 997 $aUNINA