This new critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels provides a fresh and impartial account of this world-famous satire. It presents Swift's work in its historical and literary context, and explores its allusions, its four-part structure, its narrative strategy and its prose style. A final chapter sketches the fictional aftermath of the Travels from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and there is a guide to further reading.
Chronological table; 1. Introduction; 2. Different kingdoms, different parties; 3. Marvels and voyages; 4. A voyage to Lilliput; 5. A voyage to Brobdingnag; 6. A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnag, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan; 7. A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms; 8. Concluding remarks; 9. The fictional aftermath.
Overview
This new critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels provides a fresh and impartial account of this world-famous satire. It presents Swift's work in its historical and literary context, and explores its allusions, its four-part structure, its narrative strategy and its prose style. A final chapter sketches the fictional aftermath of the Travels from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and there is a guide to further reading.