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Gulliver's travels : based on the 1726 text : contexts, criticism /

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. (Author)
Group Author: Rivero, Albert J., 1953- (Editor)
Published: Norton,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2002]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Series: Norton critical edition
Subjects:
Gulliver, Lemuel > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Swift, Jonathan, > 1667-1745. > Gulliver's travels.
Swift, Jonathan.
Gulliver, Lemuel > (Fictitious character)
Swift, Jonathan > 1667-1745 > Gulliver's travels
Gulliver's travels (Swift, Jonathan)
Gulliver's travels.
Lilliput (Imaginary place) > Fiction.
Brobdingnag (Imaginary place) > Fiction.
Voyages, Imaginary > Early works to 1800.
Imaginary societies > Early works to 1800.
Travelers > Fiction.
Voyages, Imaginary > History and criticism.
Satire, English > History and criticism.
Travelers in literature.
Fantasy.
Lilliput > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Voyages imaginaires > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Sociétés imaginaires > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Voyageurs > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Voyages imaginaires > Histoire et critique.
Voyageurs dans la littérature.
Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Lilliput (Imaginary place)
Brobdingnag (Imaginary place)
Imaginary societies.
Satire, English.
Travelers.
Voyages, Imaginary.
Satire.
Fictional Work.
Imaginary voyage fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works.
Fantasy fiction.
Fiction.
Literary criticism.
Novels.
Satirical literature.
Romans.
Critiques littéraires.
Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: x, 511 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-511).
ISBN: 9780393957242
0393957241
Index Number: PR3724
CLC: I561.44
Call Number: I561.44/S977-11
Contents: The text of Gulliver's travels. The publisher to the reader ; Travels: Part I. A voyage to Lilliput, Part II. A voyage to Brobdingnag, Part III. A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnag and Japan, Part IV. A voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms -- Contexts. Advertisement ; A letter from Capt. 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 ; A Lilliputian ode on the engine with which Captain Gulliver extinguished the Flames of the Royal Palace ; from Observations, &c. Upon the travels of Lemuel Gulliver / Edmund Curll ; [The travels of Martinus Scriblerus] ; from A new voyage round the world / William Dampier ; from The Mariner's Magazine / Samuel Sturmy ; from Gargantua and Pantagruel, book 5, chapter 22 / François Rabelais ; An account of a dog dissected / Robert Hooke -- Criticism. [Some remarks on Gulliver's Voyage to the Houyhnhnms] / Earl of Orrery ; [on Gulliver's Travels] / Sir Walter Scott ; Gulliver's glasses / Pat Rogers ; [Virtue and truth in Gulliver's Travels] / Michael McKeon ; The political significance of Gulliver's Travels / J.A. Downie ; Gulliver's Travels and the novel / J. Paul Hunter ; [Reading race and gender in Gulliver's Travels] / Laura Brown ; Swift's satire on "Science" and the structure of Gulliver's Travels / Douglas Lane Patey ; The hairy maid at the Harpsichord : some speculations on the meaning of Gulliver's Travels / Dennis Todd ; "Splendide Mendax" : authors, characters, and readers in Gulliver's Travels / Richard H. Rodino ; Show and tell in Gulliver's Travels / Irvin Ehrenpreis ; [The paratext of The Travels : Gulliver's many faces] / Janine Barchas ; Gulliver and others : reflections on Swift's "I" narrators / Claude Rawson ; Swift, Horace and Virgil : brave lies, dangerous horses, and truth / Howard D. Weinbrot -- Jonathan Swift : a chronology -- Selected bibliography.

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