Bibliograph

Readings on Gulliver's travels, Gary Wiener, book editor

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Readings on Gulliver's travels, Gary Wiener, book editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Readings on Gulliver's travels

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

42398024

Responsibility statement

Gary Wiener, book editor

Series statement

Greenhaven Press literary companion to British literature

Table Of Contents

An introduction to satire / Leonard Feinberg -- Swift's world / Philip Pinkus -- The enthusiastic reception of Gulliver's travels / A.L. Rowse -- Gulliver's travels and Robinson Crusoe / Nigel Dennis -- Swift's satire of English politics / Matthew Hodgart -- The failure of language in Gulliver's travels / Brian Tippet -- The frailty of human beings in Gulliver's travels / by Paul Fussell -- Gulliver in an unreliable narrator / Karen Lawrence, Betsy Seifter, and Lois Ratner -- Swift's technique of reducing men to machines enhances the satire / John M. Bullitt -- Gulliver's travels parodies first-person memoirs / J. Paul Hunter -- Lagado: Swift's satire of scientific knowledge / Clive T. Probyn -- Size as metaphor in Lilliput / Jack G. Gilbert -- Size and social values in Brobdingnag / Howard Erskine-Hill -- Lilliput and Brobdingnag: Swift's experiment in optics / W.A. Speck -- Hopeless worlds: the third voyage / Michael DePorte -- The limitations of the Houyhnhnms / Boris Ford -- In defense of Jonathan Swift / William Hazlitt -- Gulliver's travels is the product of a sick mind / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Swift's unhappy utopia / George Orwell -- Reading Gulliver's travels as a child and as an adult / Marcus Cunliffe

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