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Gulliver's travels: an authoritative text, the correspondence of Swift, Pope's verses on Gulliver's travels [and] critical essays. / Edited by Robert A. Greenberg.
LIBRA PR3724 .G8 1970
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- Series:
- Norton critical edition
- A Norton critical edition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Gulliver, Lemuel.
- Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character).
- Voyages, Imaginary--Early works to 1800.
- Voyages, Imaginary.
- Travelers--Fiction.
- Travelers.
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Gulliver's travels.
- Swift, Jonathan.
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Correspondence.
- Authors, Irish--18th century--Correspondence.
- Authors, Irish.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Correspondence.
- Novels.
- Personal correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Denison, Geoffrey (autograph) (former owner) (Gulliver Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, xiv, 432 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, [1970]
- Contents:
- Text of Gulliver's travels
- Extracts from the correspondence of Swift, Pope, Gay, and Arbuthnot: Swift to Charles Ford (Jan. 19, 1724; Aug. 14, 1725)
- Swift to the Rev. Thomas Sheridan (Sept. 11, 1725)
- Swift to Alexander Pope (Sept. 29, 1725)
- Swift to Alexander Pope (Nov. 26, 1725)
- John Arbuthnot to Swift (Nov 5, 1726)
- Alexander Pope to Swift (Nov. 27, 1726)
- John Gay to Swift (Nov. 17, 1726)
- Swift to Mrs. Howard (Nov. 27, 1726)
- Swift to Alexander Pope (Nov. 27, 1726)
- Swift to L'Abbe des Fontaines (July, 1727)
- Pope's verses on Gulliver's travels: To Quinbus Flestrin, the man-mountain
- Lamentation of Glumdalclitch, for the loss of Grildrig
- To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, the grateful address of the unhappy Houyhnhnms, now in slavery and bondage in England
- Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver
- Words of the King of Brobdingnag, as he held Captain Gulliver between his finger and thumb for the inspection of the sages and learned men of the court
- Critical essays: Jonathan Swift / Louis A. Landa
- Outline of Gulliver's travels / Allan Bloom
- Pride of Lemuel Gulliver / Samuel Holt Monk
- Rationale of the fourth voyage / R.S. Crane
- Gulliver; the satirist on himself / W.B. Carnochan
- Swift; the metamorphosis of irony / A.E. Dyson
- Swift and Defoe / Nigel Dennis
- Evolution of Gulliver's character / John Lawlor
- Frailty of Lemuel Gulliver / Paul Fussell, Jr.
- Sensory structure of the travels / G. Wilson Knight
- Swift and science, and the placing of book III / Bonamy Dobree
- Shadowy world of the third voyage / Kathleen Williams
- Satiric fiction / Edward W. Rosenheim, Jr.
- Gulliver's conversion amongst the Houyhnhmms / J. Middleton Murry
- Sense of tragedy in book IV / W.B.C. Watkins
- Houyhnhmms, the Yahoos, and the history of ideas / R.S. Crane
- Satire as betrayal / Henry W. Sams
- Gulliver and the gentle reader / C.J. Rawson
- Situation as satirical method / Ricardo Quintana
- Limitations of satire / Basil Willey
- Swift's negative irony / F.R. Leavis
- Aspects of Swift's prose / Herbert Davis.
- Notes:
- "Text ... is substantially that of Volume III of the Dublin edition of Swift's works, published in 1735 by George Faulkner."
- Bibliography: pages 428-432.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Gulliver collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2009.
- ISBN:
- 0393099415
- OCLC:
- 89106
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