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A radical look at Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain’s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time.
Part portrait of Britain’s greatest man of letters, part guide to life, a witty and erudite re-evaluation of Dr Johnson’s enduring importance and relevance
Jonathan Swift was a man of contradictions: a man who satirised the powerful but aspired to political greatness, who mocked men’s vanity but held himself in high esteem, a religious moraliser famed for his malice – a man sharply aware of humanity’s flaws, but no less susceptible to them. As with his acclaimed biography of John Donne, John Stubbs paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man and a turbulent period of English and Irish history.
John Stubbs’ biography sets out to capture the dirt and beauty of a world that Jonathan Swift both scorned and sought to amend. It follows Jonathan Swift through his many battles, for and against authority, and in his many contradictions, as a priest who sought to uphold the dogma of his church; as a man who was quite prepared to defy convention, not least in his unshakeable attachment to an unmarried woman, his ‘Stella’; and as a writer whose vision showed that no single creed holds all of the answers.
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