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Jonathan Swift: Sein Leben und seine Welt von Professor Damrosch, Leo: Neu-
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- Artikelzustand
- Publication Date
- 2013-11-12
- Pages
- 573
- ISBN
- 9780300164992
- Book Title
- Jonathan Swift : His Life and His World
- Item Length
- 9.4in
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 2in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History
- Topic
- Modern / 18th Century, Literary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 36.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of "Gulliver s Travels," the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved for his fierce protest against English exploitation of his native Ireland. What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of his life be separated from the fictions? In this deeply researched biography, Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift s life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift s parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift s public version of his life the one accepted until recently was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed aspects of himself and his relationships, and other people in his life helped to keep his secrets. Assembling suggestive clues, Damrosch re-narrates the events of Swift s life while making vivid the sights, sounds, and smells of his English and Irish surroundings.Through his own words and those of a wide circle of friends, a complex Swift emerges: a restless, combative, empathetic figure, a man of biting wit and powerful mind, and a major figure in the history of world letters."
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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300164998
ISBN-13
9780300164992
eBay Product ID (ePID)
166638212
Product Key Features
Book Title
Jonathan Swift : His Life and His World
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Modern / 18th Century, Literary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
2in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
36.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr3726.D27 2013
Reviews
"[S]uperb. . . . Damrosch's outstanding book has raised Swift's provocative genius to life. . . . Damrosch has brought [Swift's] vision into sharp focus and exposed its disquieting relevance."-Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal, "Masterly in its control, . . . contriving to blend informality with solid argumentation. . . . What Damrosch has given us is superior to anything that has gone before, in . . . a work where everyone will find a fascinating store of information and enjoyment."-Pat Rogers, New Criterion, "[A] commanding new biography . . . Damrosch is gifted with a fluent style, sturdy sense of humor."-John Simon, New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice), "The human young Tocqueville is much more impressive than the cold abstraction, and for helping to bring him to life we are in Leo Damrosch's debt." -Sean Wilentz, The American Prospect, "A magnificent accomplishment. It's supremely intelligent and well written, exhaustively researched, well shaped, and judiciously even-handed"-Alan Helms, The Boston Globe, "We live in an age when we sorely need a Swift; instead we have Jon Stewart. Modest recompense is to be found in Leo Damrosch's new life of Swift."-Lucas Wittmann, The Daily Beast, Praise for Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius "The erratic, inventive urgency of the life is all here. A delight to read"-Stacy Schiff, New York Times Book Review, "Damrosch writes with wit and constructs a compelling portrait of the Irish clergyman, whose satires delighted and scandalized eighteenth-century Britain." - New Yorker , "Briefly Noted", Finalist for the Biographers International Organization 2014 Plutarch Award for Best Biography of the Year, Selected by other biographers., "Masterly in its control of the material, . . . contriving to blend informality with solid argumentation. . . . Excellent passages are devoted to A Tale of a Tub, The Drapier's Letters, A Modest Proposal, and above all Gulliver's Travels. . . . What Damrosch has given us is superior to anything that has gone before, in its mastery of all aspects of the subject, . . . a work where everyone will find a fascinating store of information and enjoyment." - Pat Rogers, New Criterion, "A fine biography. . . . Damrosch is an ingenious, learned hypothesizer on matters lost to history and an adept guide to Swift's works. . . . Even Swift's contemporaries were, often enough, not sure what to make of them. One such called Swift 'my hieroglyphic friend.' And that's fine with me. Let the mystery continue, the interpretations and speculations flourish, and the greatest ironist in the English language continue to be read and puzzled over."-Katherine A. Powers, Barnes & Noble Review, "An important book, but also a provocative and exceptionally entertaining one."-Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World, "[C]onvincing and vivid. . .Damrosch has. . .let us glimpse the human roots of Swift's sometimes inhuman irony."-John Mullan, The Guardian, 'If Damrosch follows Ehrenpreis in anything, it's in the ambition, indicated by his 'life and world' subtitle, to ground biography in social context. He does that job with efficiency and a sure touch.'-Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books, Praise for Damrosch's Previous Books "The erratic, inventive urgency of the life is all here. A delight to read"-Stacy Schiff, New York Times Book Review, "Damrosch's tolerance for mystery is one of the outstanding features of his spellbinding biography. . . . Such questions are a sign of scrupulous intellectual integrity. They also deepen Damrosch's narrative, giving us a visceral sense of biography's essential tasks, which are not only to solve a life's puzzles but to remark them. . . . Swift's passions still burn through Gulliver's uncanny adventures, and in Damrosch's exceptional book."-Marcela Valdes, Critical Mass: The Blog of the National Book Critics Circle, 'Leo Damrosch has written a conscientious and worthy book, full of meat and handsomely illustrated.'-Paul Johnson, Literary Review, "Leo Damrosch's. . . wonderful and absorbing biography of Swift . . [is] by far the most balanced, nuanced and persuasive biography of Swift so far. Damrosch is a fine scholar who knows Swift's works and his age very well indeed. . .It should remind the reader what a wonderful writer Swift is and send us enthusiastically back to the texts something few biographies ever succeed in doing."-Andrew Carpenter, Irish Times, "Swift was interesting in every way, an ideal subject for biography. Many have appeared over the years, but none surpasses Leo Damrosch's superb Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World. . . . Damrosch's outstanding book has raised Swift's provocative genius to life. Swift will 'always be controversial,' he concludes, because he 'forces us to question our deep, self-flattering assumptions.' . . . Damrosch has brought [Swift's] vision into sharp focus and exposed its disquieting relevance."-Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal, "Thoroughly researched, vividly written and convincingly argued, Leo Damrosch's new biography of Jonathan Swift more than holds its own among such great predecessors as Walter Scott and Irvin Ehrenpreis, and presents a standard that contemporary scholarly prose is rarely capable of matching."-Robert Mahony, The Catholic University of America, "Leo Damrosch has written a conscientious and worthy book, full of meat and handsomely illustrated."-Paul Johnson, Literary Review, "Damrosch tells this story . . . with great energy and elegantly worn erudition. He restores to Swift the dignity he deserves, reminding us that the really shocking things about him lie not in his life but in his work."-Fintan O'Toole, New York Review of Books, "Leo Damrosch conjures up Jonathan Swift with hallucinatory vividness, allowing the contradictions of this baffling, elusive genius full rein. He recovers in rich detail the world in which Gulliver's Travels and other enduring masterpieces were created. This is a brilliant and humane biography."-Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, "The enigma of Swift's life and character continues to tease us. This magisterial biography reminded me how much, in his writings, there is to relish even outside the mainstream of the great, the immortal, works."-A. N. Wilson, The Tablet, "A feisty, first-class life of the sage and scourge of English literature. . . . Damrosch is bent on both correcting the record and adding to it, creating a fresh and vivid life even as he wrestles with previous biographers. . . . This is the kind of biography where you come to feel you know the subject personally. A rich and rewarding portrait of an irreplaceable genius."- Kirkus Reviews , starred review, "Damrosch is incisive about Swift's personality . . . and writes with fine Swiftian clarity, but does not simplify. He acknowledges that, investigating Swift, you run into a revolving door of contradictions. . . . But Damrosch sees him, rightly, not just as a tragic figure but as a fearless thinker whose works are an antidote to optimism's happy lies." - John Carey, London Sunday Times, "An impressive feat of scholarship filled with insightful readings of Swift's work, as well as extensive illustrations that help to vivify the world of this satiric master."- Publishers Weekly, Praise for Tocqueville's Discovery of America "[A] scintillating new book."-James Wood, The New Yorker, Received an Honorable Mention for the 2013 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE), in the Biography & Autobiography category., "An excellent book. Leo Damrosch . . . writes entertainingly and is comfortable with political and philosophical ideas as well as with literary matters."-Michael Dirda, Washington Post, "Convincing and vivid. . . . Damrosch has . . . let us glimpse the human roots of Swift's sometimes inhuman irony."-John Mullan, The Guardian, This "lively new biography" by "the immensely talented biographer Leo Damrosch" is "piercingly intelligent . . . [and] will surely be the definitive one-volume Swift biography of our time."-Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly, "A clear, well-placed narrative of Swift's literary and political career, . . . a tale of marvelously productive failure [leading to] his greatest work, both as a political agitator and propagandist of genius and as a satirist with unparalleled powers of creative destruction. Damrosch tells this story . . . with great energy and elegantly worn erudition. He restores to Swift the dignity he deserves, reminding us that the really shocking things about him lie not in his life but in his work."-Fintan O'Toole, New York Review of Books, "Leo Damrosch's commanding new biography . . . does ample justice to a figure for whom religion and politics-the world-were even more important than literature. . . . Damrosch is gifted with a fluent style, sturdy sense of humor, and acute guesswork in the many cases where facts are sparse or missing. His book supersedes even that of his former colleague Irvin Ehrenpreis, whose three-volume, 2,000-page biography he frequently quotes but often compellingly refutes."-John Simon, New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice), "Do read Leo Damrosch's compelling biography. . . . Here is a book to delight and instruct both the general reader and the specialist. Damrosch masterfully fleshes out the fascinating and complex life of this Anglican clergyman, champion of the oppressed Irish, and brilliant satirist who lived in an age equally fascinating and complex."-Karen Swallow Prior, Books & Culture, "Damrosch's approach is forensic. . .For me the Swift who emerges from these patient investigations is a more rounded personality."-George Walden, The Times, "[S]uperb. . . . Damrosch's outstanding book has raised Swift's provocative genius to life. . . . Damrosch has brought [Swift's] vision into sharp focus and exposed its disquieting relevance."--Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal, "Leo Damrosch's commanding new biography . . . does ample justice to a figure for whom religion and politics-the world-were even more important than literature. . . . Damrosch is gifted with a fluent style, sturdy sense of humor, and acute guesswork in the many cases where facts are sparse or missing. His book supersedes even that of his former colleague Irvin Ehrenpreis, whose three-volume, 2,000-page biography he frequently quotes but often compellingly refutes."-John Simon, New York Times Book Review, "An important book, but also a provocative and exceptionally entertaining one."-Michael Dirda, Washington Post
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2013-013063
Dewey Decimal
828.509
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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