Jonathan Swift : The Reluctant Rebel

ISBN-13: 9780241962893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 752 str.

John Stubbs

Opis

Jonathan Swift's famous works -from GULLIVERS TRAVELS to A MODEST PROPOSAL- are unparalleled in their piercing critique of modern society. But Swift was a man of great contradictions: a man who mocked men's vanity but held himself in high esteem, a religious moralizer famed for his malice. John Stubbs paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man and a turbulent period of English history.

Recenzje

Stubbs succeeds in offering something delicate, subtle and new. ... In [this] fine and sensitive book, Stubbs restores Swift's writing to its rich religious and cultural contexts without diminishing its autonomy Ruth Scurr Financial Times

O autorze

John Stubbs was born in 1977 and studied English at Oxford and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge where he completed a doctorate in 2005. Donne: The Reformed Soul was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Reprobates was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.