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Deifying Swift,
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This review is from: Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women (Hardcover)
Swift is a biographical conundrum and there are many unsolved questions about his life and works. Louise Barnet, in this fluent and engaging book, writes about Swift's involvement with women. In his written works Swift is a misogynist and rails against women, marriage and children;yet in his life, as Louise Barnet shows, he is constantly engaged with the ladies. Louise Barnett suggests that he was asexual and a virgin despite growing evidence to the contrary. To reach this position she ignores evidence that he had children by both Stella and Vanessa, the two mysterious women with whom he shared his life, and a documented allegation of a rape. Do we notJonathan Swift in the Company of Women owe the past our best efforts to identify and describe the 'truth'?
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Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women by Louise K. Barnett (Hardcover - December 7, 2006)
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