The Modern Language Review, April 1st, 1999
Jonathan Swift's Journal to Stella is a journalistic chronicle of Swift's life in London between 1710 and 1713, and features death as a frequent visitor. The prominence given to death may suggest a deeper motive than one of historical verisimilitude. Swift spent this period of his life in an extended death-watch, where the death of each succeeding bishop could result in his long-sought preferment.
Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift's chronicle of his life in London from 1710 to 1713, is recognized as both a source of historical and biographical information and a carefully constructed 'literary...
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