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Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift ; edited with an introduction and notes by Paul Turner.

Van Pelt Library PR3724.G8 T87 1998
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Contributor:
Turner, Paul, 1917-2005.
Series:
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Oxford world's classics
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Voyages, Imaginary--Fiction.
Voyages, Imaginary.
Genre:
Fiction.
Voyages, Imaginary.
Fantasy fiction.
Satirical literature.
Physical Description:
xxxviii, 371 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Place of Publication:
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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; an island of sorcerers; and a country ruled by horses.
Contents:
Part I Gulliver's Travels: The Complete Text
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text [1965 Herbert Davis Edition, based on the Faulkner Edition of 1735]
Part II Gulliver's Travels: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of Gulliver's Travels
Feminist Criticism and Gulliver's Travels
What Is Feminist Criticism?
Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Feminist Perspective:
Felicity A. Nussbaum, Gulliver's Malice: Gender and the Satiric Stance
New Historicism and Gulliver's Travels
What Is New Historicism?
New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography
A New Historicist Perspective:
Carole Fabricant, History, Narrativity, and Swift's Project to "Mend the World"
Deconstruction and Gulliver's Travels
What Is Deconstruction?
Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography
A Deconstuctionist Perspective:
Terry Castle, Why the Houyhnhnms Don't Write: Swift, Satire, and the Fear of the Text
Reader-Response Criticism and Gulliver's Travels
What Is Reader-Response Criticism?
Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Reader-Response Perspective:
Michael J. Conlon, Performance as Response in Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Psychoanalytic Criticism and Gulliver's Travels
What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Psychoanalytic Perspective:
Carol Barash, Violence and the Maternal: Swift, Psychoanalysis, and the 1720s.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxviii]-xxix).
ISBN:
0192833774
OCLC:
40311731

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