Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World book pdf download

Author: Leo Damrosch

About the Author: Leo Damrosch is an American author and professor. In 2001, he was named the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University.[1] He received a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. His areas of academic specialty include Romanticism, the Enlightenment, and Puritanism.[1] Damrosch’s “The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus” is one of the most important recent explorations of the early history of the Society of Friends. His Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005) was a National Book Award finalist for nonfiction and winner of the 2006 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for best work of nonfiction. Among his other books are “Symbol and Truth in Blake’s Myth” (1980), “God’s Plot and Man’s Stories: Studies in the Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding” (1985), “Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson” (1987), and “Tocqueville’s Discovery of America” (2010).

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World book pdf download By Leo Damrosch

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?

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