{"product_id":"jonathan-swift-8","title":"Jonathan Swift","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Swift: Our Dean\u003c\/i\u003e details the political climax of his remarkable career—his writing and publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Drapier's Letters\u003c\/i\u003e (1724), \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels \u003c\/i\u003e(1726), and \u003ci\u003eA Modest Proposal \u003c\/i\u003e(1729)—stressing the relentless political opposition he faced and the numerous ways, including through his sermons, that he worked from his political base as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, psychologically as well as physically just outside the Dublin city walls, to attempt to rouse the Irish people to awareness of the ways that England was abusing them.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis book faces squarely the likelihood that Swift had a physical affair with Esther Vanhomrigh between 1719 and 1723, and reassesses in the light of that likelihood his conflicting relations with Esther Vanhomrigh and Esther Johnson. It traces the many loving friendships with both men and women in Ireland that sustained Swift during the years when his health gradually failed him, enabling him to continue indefatiguably, both through his writings and his authority as Dean of St. Patrick's, to contribute to the public welfare in the face of relentless British attempts to squeeze greater and greater profits out of their Irish colony. Finally, it traces how Swift's political indignation led to his treating many people, friends and enemies, cruelly during the 1730s, even while his humor and his ability to make and attract new friends sustained themselves until his memory finally failed him in 1742.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis biography, in two books, \u003ci\u003eJonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJonathan Swift:Our Dean\u003c\/i\u003e, comes closer than past biographies to capturing how it felt to Swift himself to live his life.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Delaware Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54247838581080,"sku":"9781644530368","price":132.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781644530368.jpg?v=1779513365","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/jonathan-swift-8","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}