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This is the second volume of Irvin Ehrenpreis's trilogy, and deals with the period 1699-1714. The years between 1699 and 1710 were a time of training--in some ways unfortunate, as Ehrenpreis shows--for the dramatic four years which followed for Swift, as a political journalist in England. Swift's ecclesiastical career, his search for preferment and the gradual transformation of his social life are examined. The author also scrutinizes Swift's attachment to Esther Johnson and Esther Vanhomrigh, the evolution of his political principles, and his unconscious motivations, and he reaches some original conclusions. Above all, however, Ehrenpreis concentrates on Swift's literary works of this period; and for some of these, such as An Argument against Abolishing Christianity, The Conduct of the Allies, and A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions, he provides analyses that can stand as independent critical essays. Volume Two lives up in every way to
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Swift Vol. II : The Man, His Works, and the Age - Dean Swift
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Swift Vol. II : The Man, His Works, and the Age - Dean Swift
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Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age: 003 (Volume 3)
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Swift The Man, His Works, and the Age; Volume Three; Dean Swift
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Swift; The Man, His Works, and the Age; Volume Three; Dean Swift
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[0-674-85835-2] 1983. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 1066pp. Top edge stained orange. Notes, references, index. The top rear corner is lightly bumped. "Ehrenpreis now brings his trilogy to completion with Dean Swift. Here we see the Dean as patriot, persistently enraged over British policy in Ireland. We watch Swift writing poetry and publishing political pamphlets - and get a picture of the political furors and economic problems that motivated those satirical protests". Biography of Jonathan Swift. Time Period 18th Century. Vol. 3 The Man, His Works, and the Age (Dean Swift). (Biography, Economics, Novelists, Politics--Ireland, Satire). Seller Inventory # 154658
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