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Gulliver's travels / by Jonathan Swift ; retold by Leslie Kimmelman ; illustrated by Nick Harris ; line illustrations by John Lawrence.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kimmelman, Leslie.
- Series:
- Ladybird picture classics.
- Ladybird picture classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Gulliver, Lemuel.
- Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character).
- Travelers.
- Voyages, Imaginary.
- Voyages, Imaginary--Juvenile fiction.
- Travelers--Juvenile fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Voyages, Imaginary.
- Penn Provenance:
- Denison, Geoffrey (former owner)
- Physical Description:
- 51 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Ladybird Books USA, [1996]
- Summary:
- The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brodingnag, 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.
- Local Notes:
- Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2009.
- ISBN:
- 0721456146
- 9780721456140
- OCLC:
- 34994007
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