Gulliver's travels : based on the 1726 text : contexts, criticism
(2002)

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FICTION/SWIFT,J

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PUBLISHED
New York : Norton, [2002]
©2002
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

x, 511 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0393957241 (pbk.), 9780393957242 (pbk.), 0393957241 :
LANGUAGE
English
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

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