Gulliver's travels: [electronic resource] an authoritative text, the correspondence of Swift, Pope's verses on Gulliver's travels [and] critical essays. Edited by Robert A. Greenberg.
Material type:
- 0393099415
- 9780393099416
- 823/.5
- PZ3.S9765 G117 PR3724.G7
"Text ... is substantially that of Volume III of the Dublin edition of Swift's works, published in 1735 by George Faulkner."
Bibliography: p. 428-432.
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.
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