Political Biography of Jonathan Swift

'Oakleaf makes an important contribution to this series, setting a standard of careful research and general excellence ... with its extensive notes and bibliography, this clearly developed study will be a boon to scholars. Recommended.' CHOICE '[a] nuanced, generous study' The Scriblerian 'a full and up-to-date introduction to the successive episodes in high politics that provided Swift with some of his most fertile subject matter.' Journal of Historical Biography

• Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: ‘“The Church had never such a Writer”’; Chapter 1 Swift, War and Ireland: ‘An Heap of Conspiracies, Rebellions, Murders, Massacres, Revolutions, Banishments’; Chapter 2 Courting the Favour of the Great:; A Discourse; and; A Tale of a Tub; Chapter 3 ‘An Entire Friend to the Established Church’: Churchman among the Statesmen and Wits; Chapter 4 The Echo of the Coffee House and the Voice of the Kingdom: Propagandist for a Peace; Chapter 5 ‘Do I become a; Slave; in Six Hours, by Crossing the Channel?’: The Dean, the Drapier and Irish Politics; Conclusion: ‘Upon this Great Foundation of Misanthropy’;