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The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels

Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature

Editors:
Daniel Cook, University of Dundee
Nicholas Seager, Keele University

Joseph Hone, Ian Higgins, Liz Bellamy, Gregory Lynall, J. A. Downie, Pat Rogers, Dirk F. Passmann, Paddy Bullard, Brean Hammond, Melinda Alliker Rabb, Nicholas Seager, Barbara M. Benedict, Judith Hawley, Jack Lynch, Daniel Cook, Ruth Menzies, Emrys Jones

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Date Published: October 2023
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9781108822008

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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.
- Provides a range of critical approaches to a Gulliver's Travels, enabling conceptually- and historically-informed engagement by readers at a range of levels
- Models close readings and interpretations as well as broader generically- and contextually-informed analyses, giving readers the resources to develop their own original readings
- Surveys and analyses critical receptions of and creative responses to Gulliver's Travels in the last 300 years, demonstrating the continuing relevance of an enduring, contested work
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- Date Published: October 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108822008
- length: 228 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Contexts:
1. Politics Joseph Hone
2. Religion Ian Higgins
3. Bodies and Gender Liz Bellamy
4. Science, Empire, and Observation Gregory Lynall
Part II. Genres:
5. Popular Fiction J. A. Downie
6. Satire Pat Rogers
7. Travel Writing Dirk F. Passmann
8. Philosophical Tale Paddy Bullard
Part III. Reading Gulliver's Travels:
9. Advertisements and Authorship Brean Hammond
10. A Voyage to Lilliput Melinda Alliker Rabb
11. A Voyage to Brobdingnag Nicholas Seager
12. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, &c. Barbara M. Benedict
13. A Voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms Judith Hawley
Part IV. Afterlives:
14. Critical Reception Jack Lynch
15. Further Voyages Daniel Cook
16. Visual Culture Ruth Menzies
17. Screen Media Emrys Jones.
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Editors
Daniel Cook, University of Dundee
Daniel Cook is an Associate Dean and Reader in English Literature at the University of Dundee. He is the author of Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760–1830 (2013), Reading Swift's Poetry (2020), and Walter Scott and Short Fiction (2021), as well as co-editor of Women's Life Writing, 1700–1850: Gender, Genre and Authorship (2012), The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2015), and Austen After 200: New Reading Spaces (2022).
Nicholas Seager, Keele University
Nicholas Seager is Professor of English Literature and Head of the School of Humanities at Keele University. He is author of The Rise of the Novel: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism (2012), co-editor of The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2015) and Samuel Johnson's The Life of Richard Savage (2016), and editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe (2022).
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Joseph Hone, Ian Higgins, Liz Bellamy, Gregory Lynall, J. A. Downie, Pat Rogers, Dirk F. Passmann, Paddy Bullard, Brean Hammond, Melinda Alliker Rabb, Nicholas Seager, Barbara M. Benedict, Judith Hawley, Jack Lynch, Daniel Cook, Ruth Menzies, Emrys Jones