Gulliver's travels : based on the 1726 text : contexts, criticism
(2002)
Fiction
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FICTION/SWIFT,J
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PUBLISHED
New York : Norton, [2002]
©2002
©2002
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
x, 511 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0393957241 (pbk.), 9780393957242 (pbk.), 0393957241 :
LANGUAGE
English
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NOTES
The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; and a country ruled by horses
CONTENTS
ext of Gulliver's travels: Travels: Voyage to Lilliput --
Voyage to Brobdingnag --
Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnag and Japan --
Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms --
Contexts: Advertisement --
Letter from Captain Gulliver, to his Cousin Sympson
(A paragraph on Queen Anne)(The Lindalinian Rebellion) -- From Swift's correspondence --
Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels --
Lilliputian ode on the engine with which Captain Gulliver extinguished the Flames of the Royal Palace --
Edmund Curll --
From observations, &c. Upon the travels of Lemuel Gulliver --
(The travels of Martinus Scriblerus) --
William Dampier --
From a new voyage round the world --
Samuel Sturmy --
From the Mariner's Magazine --
Francois Rabelais --
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, book 5, chapter 22 --
Robert Hooke --
Account of a dog dissected --
Criticism: Earl of Orrery --
(some remarks on Gulliver's Voyage to the Houyhnhnms) --
Sir Walter Scott --
(on Gulliver's Travels) --
Pat Rogers --
Gulliver's glasses --
Michael McKeon --
(Virtue and truth in Gulliver's Travels) --
J.A. Downie --
Political significance of Gulliver's Travels --
J. Paul Hunter --
Gulliver's Travels and the novel --
Laura Brown --
(reading race and gender in Gulliver's Travels) --
Douglas Lane Patey --
Swift's satire on "Science" and the sctructure of Gulliver's Travels --
Dennis Todd --
Hairy maid at the Harpsichord: Some speculations on the meaning of Gulliver's Travels --
Richard H. Rodino --
"Splendide Mendax": Authors, characters, and readers in Gulliver's Travels --
Irvin Ehrenpreis --
Show and tell in Gulliver's Travels --
Janine Barchas
(Paratext of the Travels: Gulliver's many faces) -- Claude Rawson --
Gulliver and others: Reflections on Swift's "I" narrators --
Howard D. Weinbrot --
Swift, Horace and Virgil: Brave lies, dangerous horses, and truth --
Jonathan Swift: Chronology --
Selected bibliography