The Cambridge companion to Gulliver's travels / edited by Daniel Cook, Nicholas Seager.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cook, Daniel, 1981- editor.

Seager, Nicholas, editor.

Series:

Cambridge Companions to Literature.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Swift, Jonathan.

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745--Criticism and interpretation.

Satire, English--History and criticism.

Satire, English.

Voyages, Imaginary--History and criticism.

Voyages, Imaginary.

Imaginary societies in literature.

Travelers in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, has shocked and delighted readers worldwide since its publication in 1726. At turns a humorous and harrowing indictment of human behaviour, it has been endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted across media by other artists. The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels comprises 17 original chapters by leading scholars, written in a theoretically-informed but accessible style. As well as providing detailed close readings of each part of the narrative, this Companion relates Gulliver's Travels to the political, religious, scientific, colonial, and intellectual debates in which Swift was engaged, and it assesses the form of the book as a novel, travel book, philosophical treatise, and satire. Finally, it explores the Travels' rich and varied afterlives: the controversies it has fuelled, the films and artworks it has inspired, and the enduring need authors have felt to 'write back' to Swift's original, disturbing, and challenging story.

Contents:

Politics / Joseph Hone

Religion / Ian Higgins

Bodies and gender / Liz Bellamy

Science, empire, and observation / Gregory Lynall

Popular fiction / J. A. Downie

Satire / Pat Rogers

Travel writing / Dirk F. Passmann

Philosophical tale / Paddy Bullard

Advertisements and authorship / Brean Hammond

A voyage to Lilliput / Melinda Alliker Rabb

A voyage to Brobdingnag / Nicholas Seager

A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, &c. / Barbara M. Benedict

A voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms / Judith Hawley

Critical reception / Jack Lynch

Further voyages / Daniel Cook

Visual culture / Ruth Menzies

Screen media / Emrys Jones.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108904421

1108904424

9781108905442

1108905447

9781108909488

1108909485