Gulliver's Travels

by Swift, Jonathan; Fox, Christopher B.

• ISBN13: 9780312066659
• ISBN10: 0312066651
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Through a series of shipwrecks and misguided voyages, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war because of a religious disagreement over how to crack eggs; is sexually assaulted by giants; visits a floating island; and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man. Tough, filthy, and incisive, this playful satire addresses-among other topics-politics, religion, and society is presented here in its unexpurgated entirety. Also included is Alexander Pope's "Verses on Gulliver's Travels," which he wrote for his friend Swift and which were included in very early editions of the book.

Table of Contents

About the Series	v
About This Volume	vii
PART ONE Gulliver's Travels: The Complete Text
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts	3	(24)
The Complete Text	27	(242)
PART TWO Gulliver's Travels: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of Gulliver's Travels	269	(36)
Feminist Criticism and Gulliver's Travels	305	(30)
What Is Feminist Criticism?	305	(7)
Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	312	(6)
A Feminist Perspective:
Gulliver's Malice: Gender and the Satiric Stance	318	(17)
Felicity A. Nussbaum
The New Historicism and Gulliver's Travels	335	(31)
What Is the New Historicism?	335	(9)
The New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography	344	(4)
A New Historicist Perspective:
History, Narrativity, and Swift's Project to ``Mend the World''	348	(18)
Carole Fabricant
Deconstruction and Gulliver's Travels	366	(30)
What Is Deconstruction?	366	(9)
Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography	375	(4)
A Deconstructionist Perspective:
Why the Houyhnhnms Don't Write: Swift, Satire, and the Fear of the Text	379	(17)
Terry Castle
Reader-Response Criticism and Gulliver's Travels	396	(29)
What Is Reader-Response Criticism?	396	(8)
Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	404	(4)
A Reader-Response Perspective:
Performance as Response in Swift's Gulliver's Travels	408	(17)
Michael J. Conlon
Psychoanalytic Criticism and Gulliver's Travels	425	(40)
What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?	425	(12)
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	437	(5)
A Psychoanalytic Perspective:
Violence and the Maternal: Swift, Psychoanalysis, and the 1720s	442	(23)
Carol Barash
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms	465	(14)
About the Contributors	479