Jonathan Swift : : Irish Blow-In.

• Author: Hammond, Eugene.
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick : : University of Delaware Press,, 2016.; ©2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (654 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- The Author to the Reader -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources -- Part 1: 1667-1689: Blown in to Ireland -- 1: Born to the Protestant Ascendancy,and to His Own Father -- 2: Kidnapped -- 3: Ill Treatment from His Nearest Relations? -- 4: A Playful but Well-Disciplined Schoolboy -- 5: Acquiring the Prejudices of Education -- 6: Parody, Humor, and the Satirical Tripos Tradition -- Part 2: 1689-1699: Prolonged Adolescence -- 7: Wholesale Protestant Flight -- 8: The Temples, and Bridget and Esther Johnson -- 9: Impressing Sir William with Good Penmanship, Skilled Oral Reading, and Being a Good Listener -- 10: The Battle of the Boyne -- 11: Befriending Ten-Year-Old Esther Johnson -- 12: Life Mastered at Age Twenty-Five -- 13: Choosing His Grandfather's Career over His Father's -- 14: Your First Job Is Almost Always a Bad One -- 15: An Equivocating Dodge from Marriage -- 16: For the Time Being, Writing Trumps Service to the Church -- 17: Respected Secretary, but Already on the Wrong Side of Thirty -- Part 3: 1699-1704: Willows, Account Books, Taking Responsibility for Two Women Formerly in Service -- 18: With the Help of Lady Giffard -- 19: Professional Independence -- 20: Jettisoning Jane Waring -- 21: Rescuing Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley from Lives of Service -- 22: Political Theory, Never Forgetting Human Nature -- 23: Building a Comfortable Life in Ireland -- 24: Making a Laracor Cabin a Home -- 25: Swift the Historian -- 26: Throwing the Dice with A Tale of a Tub -- 27: Woops! Rev. Tisdall Proposes to Esther Johnson -- 28: After Three Prefatory Pieces, the Preface -- 29: Rethinking Dante's Divine Comedy -- 30: Digressing to the Core of Our Being -- 31: The Tale in Context -- 32: The Spider and the Bee -- 33: Stirring Up Spirituality.

34: Planting Minefields in Your Own Path through Life -- Part 4: 1704-1710: After a Rural Retreat with Esther Johnson: Gaining Traction in the English Worlds of Politics and of Literature -- 35: Serving the Irish Church -- 36: The Vicar of Laracor vs. the Freethinking Matthew Tindal -- 37: Union with the Wrong Dependent Kingdom -- 38: At the Age of Forty, a Career Jump-Start -- 39: Spilled Coffee -- 40: To Mischief Swift -- 41: The Coffee House Life -- 42: Sacrificing the Test Act for the First Fruits? -- 43: The Sensible Moderate's Manifesto -- 44: Inconveniencing Men of Quality -- 45: Swift a Projector? -- 46: Catching a Bit of the Spleen -- 47: The Injured Lady, Déjà Vu -- 48: The Queen's Bounty Redux -- 49: At Play -- 50: Breathing Space in Ireland -- 51: Family and Friends -- Part 5: 1710-1711: Political and Personal Exhilaration -- 52: Home: England or Ireland? -- 53: The Politics of September 1710 -- 54: He Understands Me, He Likes Me, He Respects Me (I'm Pretty Sure) -- 55: Sir Matthew Dudley's Extraordinary Letter -- 56: Extending the Queen's Bounty to Ireland -- 57: Suddenly, an Examiner -- 58: The Art of Political Lying -- 59: Cuffing the Duke of Marlborough, Slicing the Earl of Wharton -- 60: A Lost Christmas -- 61: The Examiner Cross-Examined -- 62: The Will of the People -- 63: Character Trumps Politics -- 64: Mano a Mano with the Duke of Marlborough -- 65: "Short Sighs" for Hetty and Laracor -- 66: An Ill-Considered Collection -- 67: Whom Was Guiscard Trying to Kill? -- 68: I Begin to Be Heartily Weary -- 69: Exit, Declaring Victory -- 70: Walking for Health, Dressing for Court at the Vanhomrighs -- 71: Heat Wave -- 72: Relief: Rain, and a Holiday -- Part 6: 1711-1713: Swift's Pen (at Considerable Cost to Swift) Trumps Marlborough's Sword -- 73: Charismatic Jonathan -- 74: The Good Life at Windsor.

75: Helping Jane, Distracting Critics of a Peace, and Some Wrong Steps -- 76: Every Ounce of Effort for a Peace -- 77: Twenty-Six Fatal Blackletter Lines -- 78: Tories and (Just Enough) Whigs Agree on a Peace -- 79: Success Sabotaged by the Shingles -- 80: Loyalty Test: Esther Johnson, Alice Hill, and Esther Vanhomrigh -- 81: Slouching Toward St. Patrick's -- 82: Tragic Climax -- 83: Dénouement -- Part 7: 1713-1714: Once More into the Breach -- 84: Hessy's Letters Crowd the Laracor Cottage -- 85: A Man Fit to Serve the Church? -- 86: Self-Assuring Self-Portraits -- 87: More Fun than an Author Ought to Have -- 88: Twenty Guineas for a Conversion -- 89: Historiographer Royal -- 90: Wanted: For the First But Not for the Last Time -- 91: Bad Tory Behavior in Ireland -- 92: On Most Issues, We Now Agree -- 93: Political Immobility, Amateur Poetics -- 94: Swift's Inner Scream Becomes Intolerable -- 95: Refuge at Letcombe Bassett -- 96: Yet Another Declaration of Independence -- 97: Broken Confidence Déjà Vu -- 98: (Almost) Historiographer -- 99: Oxford/Bolingbroke Infighting Goes Exponential -- 100: Four Days of High Drama -- 101: In the Wake of Queen Anne's Death -- 102: Swearing Allegiance without Enthusiasm -- Bibliography -- About the Author.