Gulliver's travels : complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives / Jonathan Swift ; edited by Christopher Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Contributor:

Fox, Christopher, 1948-

Geoffrey Denison Gulliver's Travels Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Case studies in contemporary criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages, Imaginary--Early works to 1800.

Voyages, Imaginary.

Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Gulliver, Lemuel.

Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character).

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Gulliver's travels.

Swift, Jonathan.

Satire, English--History and criticism.

Satire, English.

Voyages, Imaginary--History and criticism.

Travelers--Fiction.

Travelers.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Denison, Geoffrey (former owner)

Physical Description:

x, 480 pages : maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, [1995]

Summary:

This edition of Swift's classic novel presents the 1965 Herbert Davis Edition (based on the Faulkner Edition of 1735) along with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised for a student audience - that read Gulliver's Travels from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of.

That approach. In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts to Swift and Gulliver's Travels, a survey of critical responses to the novel since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

Contents:

pt. 1. Gulliver's Travels: The Complete Text. Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts. The Complete Text

pt. 2. 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: Gulliver's Malice: Gender and the Satiric Stance / Felicity A. Nussbaum. The New Historicism and Gulliver's Travels. What Is the New Historicism? The New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography. A New Historicist Perspective: History, Narrativity, and Swift's Project to "Mend the World" / Carole Fabricant. Deconstruction and Gulliver's Travels. What Is Deconstruction? Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography. A Deconstructionist Perspective: Why the Houyhnhnms Don't Write: Swift, Satire, and the Fear of the Text / Terry Castle. Reader-Response Criticism and Gulliver's Travels. What Is Reader-Response Criticism? Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Reader-Response Perspective: Performance as Response in Swift's Gulliver's Travels / Michael J. Conlon. Psychoanalytic Criticism and Gulliver's Travels. What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism? Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Psychoanalytic Perspective: Violence and the Maternal: Swift, Psychoanalysis, and the 1720s / Carol Barash.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2009.

ISBN:

0312102844

9780312102845

0312066651

9780312066659

0333634381

9780333634387

OCLC:

31794911

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