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Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- Series:
- Wordsworth classics
- Wordsworth Classics
- 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.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Denison, Geoffrey (former owner)
- Physical Description:
- 249 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ware, Hertfordshire : Wordsworth, [1992]
- Summary:
- Gulliver set sail not knowing what fantastic adventures await him. First he is shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput where the people are only six inches high! Then, he voyages to Brobdingnag, a land of towering giants. Will Gulliver ever make it back home?
- 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:
- In four parts : Pt. I. A voyage to Lilliput. Pt. II. A voyage to Brobdingnag. Pt. III. A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan. Pt. IV. A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2009.
- ISBN:
- 1853260274
- 9781853260278
- OCLC:
- 541422594
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