{"product_id":"jonathan-swift-our-dean-paperback-softback-9781644530375","title":"Jonathan Swift; Our Dean (Paperback \/ softback) 9781644530375","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJonathan Swift\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOur Dean\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEugene Hammond (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781644530375\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 April 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e840 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 5.1 cm, 1.242 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"The first study to consider here is the two-volume life of Swift by Eugene Hammond. These are magisterial volumes.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Studies in English Literature\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Any decent biography of a writer will make you want to go back to the work, and Hammond achieves this.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Eighteenth Century Fiction\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \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  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources\u003cbr\u003e PART 1: 1714—1720: TEACHING KNIGHTLEY CHETWODE HOW TO BEHAVE\u003cbr\u003e 1. Beached on the Liffey\u003cbr\u003e 2. Anneantissement, Then Resilience\u003cbr\u003e 3. Settling In\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hessy in Dublin\u003cbr\u003e 5. Truly Home\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"\u003cbr\u003eThe Public Wind Full in My Teeth\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Surveillance\u003cbr\u003e 8. Unalloyed Kindness\u003cbr\u003e 9. Jacobite?\u003cbr\u003e 10. From Mentee to Mentor\u003cbr\u003e 11. How Do You Combat Unlimited Power?\u003cbr\u003e 12. Swift as Chief Executive Officer\u003cbr\u003e 13. Clear, Practical Advice\u003cbr\u003e 14. Political Sermons of the 1720s\u003cbr\u003e 15. Trying, Despite the Political Odds, to Get the Right People into the Right Places\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Esther-Swift-Esther Triangle Tests All Three of Its Vertices\u003cbr\u003e 17. Forty-Seven-Year-Old Swift and Twenty-Six-Year-Old Pope\u003cbr\u003e 18. Swift's Web of Sustaining Irish Friends\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Earl of Oxford Walks Out of the Tower\u003cbr\u003e 20. A New Generation of Friends\u003cbr\u003e 21. From Essentially Cheerful to Essentially Angry\u003cbr\u003e 22. Trying to Let Go of the Earl of Oxford\u003cbr\u003e 23. Coffee\u003cbr\u003e 24. Reaffirming Respect for Esther Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 25. Restoking the Publication Fires\u003cbr\u003e PART 2: 1720—1726: \"\u003cbr\u003eI ATTEMPTED TO RISE, BUT WAS [AT FIRST] NOT ABLE TO STIR\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 26. Struggling with Illness\u003cbr\u003e 27. Free Again to Speak?\u003cbr\u003e 28. In the Shadow of Molly's Decline, Hessy Living a Half-Life with Swift\u003cbr\u003e 29. True to Both?\u003cbr\u003e 30. Looking for a Course\u003cbr\u003e 31. The First European Microlender\u003cbr\u003e 32. Chief Justice Whitshed and \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBeget \u003ci\u003eGulliver's \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTravels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 33. Keeping Hessy at a Distance to Concentrate on \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 34. Fair to Middling Poems, and an Elegy for the Duke of Marlborough\u003cbr\u003e 35. A Humbling Year: 1723\u003cbr\u003e 36. A Fourth Vanhomrigh Succumbs to Consumption\u003cbr\u003e 37. Getting Away\u003cbr\u003e 38. Reaffirming Commitment to and Respect for Esther Johnson, This Time Doing it Well\u003cbr\u003e 39. Christmas at Quilca, Steeped in the Mindset of \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 40. Standing Up to British Presumption\u003cbr\u003e 41. \"\u003cbr\u003eOne [Deaf] Man in his Shirt\"\u003cbr\u003e Refusing to Be Intimidated\u003cbr\u003e 42. Against All Odds, Stymying Wood and Walpole\u003cbr\u003e 43. Wielding Pickaxes, Digging Peat, Re-Courting (and Sealing his Love for) Esther Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 44. David Fells Goliath\u003cbr\u003e 45. Preparing for England, 1726\u003cbr\u003e PART 3: 1726—1728: CHOOSING ESTHER JOHNSON OVER PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITY IN ENGLAND\u003cbr\u003e 46. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTete-a-Tete\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003ewith Sir Robert Walpole\u003cbr\u003e 47. Caring for Esther Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 48. A Voyage to Lilliput\u003cbr\u003e 49. A Voyage to Brobdingnag\u003cbr\u003e 50. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan\u003cbr\u003e 51. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms\u003cbr\u003e 52. Aftermath\u003cbr\u003e 53. What Did Swift Believe?\u003cbr\u003e 54. In Ireland while \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBegan to Do Its Work\u003cbr\u003e 55. Last Visit to England\u003cbr\u003e 56. Swift's Literary Career Capped with Accolades in Paris (Not)\u003cbr\u003e 57. Choosing Patty Rolt over Alexander Pope\u003cbr\u003e 58. King Lear with a Sense of Humoron the Heath at Holyhead\u003cbr\u003e 59. Returning to Esther Johnson, and in Consequence, to Ireland\u003cbr\u003e 60. Losing Esther Johnson in Her Prime\u003cbr\u003e PART 4: 1728—1731: PREMATURE VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT\u003cbr\u003e 61. Even Without Esther Johnson, Deciding to Stay in Ireland\u003cbr\u003e 62. Sarah Harding Redivivus\u003cbr\u003e 63. The \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e—Full Talent and Vigor, But Unsustained\u003cbr\u003e 64. Eight Months with the Achesons\u003cbr\u003e 65. Without Esther Johnson and Archbishop King, Ungoverned\u003cbr\u003e 66. Rough Drafts for \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Modest Proposal \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 67. Drapier's Hill\u003cbr\u003e 68. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Modest \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eProposal \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand a Stunningly Modest Response\u003cbr\u003e 69. OK, if Nobody Will Listen...\u003cbr\u003e 70. The Triumfeminate and the Pilkingtons\u003cbr\u003e 71. Libels and Epistles\u003cbr\u003e 72. Swift's First (But Not His Last) \"\u003cbr\u003eFreedom of the City\"\u003cbr\u003e Fiasco\u003cbr\u003e 73. Final Visit to a Couple about to Separate \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 74. Ghost Writing for Captain Creichton\u003cbr\u003e 75. Letters and Fun\u003cbr\u003e 76. Snow White (Laetitia Pilkington) and the Seven Dwarfs (Ten Clergymen)\u003cbr\u003e 77. Incendiary in Politics, Loving as a Friend, but Sometimes Confusing the Two\u003cbr\u003e 78. Let's Try a Comic Poem about My Death\u003cbr\u003e PART 5: 1732—1745: INTERNAL MONITOR NOT ALWAYS ENGAGED\u003cbr\u003e 79. The Bishops Get Their Due\u003cbr\u003e 80. Be Wary of Presbyterians, But More Wary of Americans\u003cbr\u003e 81. Everybody Poops\u003cbr\u003e 82. Fully Home in the Deanery\u003cbr\u003e 83. Financial Security\u003cbr\u003e 84. Life with Laetitia Pilkington, 1732—1733\u003cbr\u003e 85. Fighting Robert Walpole through Local Elections\u003cbr\u003e 86. With No Parliament in Session, Life Is Good in Dublin\u003cbr\u003e 87. Parliament Returns\u003cbr\u003e 88. Swift's Better Business Bureau\u003cbr\u003e 89. Capping an Otherwise Successful Year by Being Threatened by an MP\u003cbr\u003e 90. Stepping Aside for the Next Generation\u003cbr\u003e 91. Still Able to Rise to the Occasion\u003cbr\u003e 92. The Good Martha Whiteway\u003cbr\u003e 93. Disagreeable Quilca, Agreeable Martha Whiteway\u003cbr\u003e 94. One More Hopeful Young Man Taken\u003cbr\u003e 95. Jailed Printers Revive Swift's Pen\u003cbr\u003e 96. Difficult, but Still with a Sense of Humor\u003cbr\u003e 97. Badges for Beggars\u003cbr\u003e 98. Publishing the History of Queen Anne's Ministry (Not)\u003cbr\u003e 99. Humility Recommended and Practiced\u003cbr\u003e 100. Distorting the Record\u003cbr\u003e 101. Swift's Guide to Domestic Guerilla Warfare\u003cbr\u003e 102. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back\u003cbr\u003e 103. Swift's Will\u003cbr\u003e 104. Last Glimpses of Swift\u003cbr\u003e 105. Loving Care: John Lyon, Martha Whiteway, Anne Ridgeway\u003cbr\u003e 106. 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