Stubbs, John Jonathan Swift 9780670922055

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Автор: Stubbs, John
Название: Jonathan Swift (Джон Стаббс: Джонатан Свифт)
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Классификация:
Литературоведение
Романы, проза и авторы
Литературные
ISBN: 0670922056
ISBN-13(EAN): 9780670922055
ISBN: 0-670-92205-6
ISBN-13(EAN): 978-0-670-92205-5
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 500
Вес: 0.976 кг.
Дата издания: 03.11.2016
Размер: 169 x 318 x 53
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: The reluctant rebel
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Born in Ireland in 1667, Jonathan Swift defiantly clung to his Englishness. He refused to relinquish this attachment even as corruption and injustice gradually led him to turn against the English government. In a long life, Swift proved a reluctant rebel, though one with a relish for the fight, and implacable when provoked - a voice of withering disenchantment unrivalled in English.

But he was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, a conscientious Anglican minister, as well as a hoaxer and a teller of tales. His anger against abuses of power would produce the most famous satire of the English language - Gullivers Travels as well as the Drapier Papers and the unparallelled Modest Proposal, in which he imagined the poor of Ireland farming their infants for the tables of wealthy colonists. John Stubbs biography sets out to capture the dirt and beauty of a world that Swift both scorned and sought to amend.

It follows Swift through his many battles, for and against authority, and in his many contradictions, as a priest who sought to uphold the dogma of his church; as a man who was quite prepared to defy convention, not least in his unshakeable attachment to an unmarried woman, his Stella; and as a writer whose vision showed that no single creed holds all of the answers.

Jonathan Swift, Stubbs, John