Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World pdf

Leo Damrosch 是一位美国作家和教授。 2001年，他被任命为哈佛大学欧内斯特·伯恩鲍姆文学教授。 [1] 他获得了学士学位。 耶鲁大学，剑桥大学文学硕士，马歇尔学者，博士。 来自普林斯顿大学。 他的学术专长领域包括浪漫主义、启蒙运动和清教主义。 [1] 达姆罗施的《贵格会耶稣的悲伤》是最近对朋友协会早期历史最重要的探索之一。 他的 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005) 是美国国家图书奖非小说类作品的决赛入围者，也是 2006 年 L. L. Winship/PEN 新英格兰最佳非小说类作品奖的获得者。 他的其他著作包括《布莱克神话中的象征与真理》（1980 年）、《上帝的阴谋与人的故事：从弥尔顿到菲尔丁的虚构想象研究》（1985 年）、《休谟和约翰逊时代的现实小说》 （1987 年）和“托克维尔发现美洲”（2010 年）。

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World pdf 里奥·达姆罗施

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.

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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.