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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.

By: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Contributor(s): Greenberg, Robert A [ed.].
Material type: TextTextSeries: A Norton critical edition.Publisher: New York, Norton [1970]Edition: Rev.Description: x, xiv, 432 p. illus. 22 cm.ISBN: 0393099415; 9780393099416.Subject(s): Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800 | Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Gulliver's travels | Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Correspondence | Authors, Irish -- 18th century -- Correspondence | Travelers -- FictionGenre/Form: Fantasy fiction. | Satire.DDC classification: 823/.5 Online resources: Free eBook from the Internet Archive | Additional information and access via Open Library
Contents:
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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"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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