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Jonathan Swift'sGulliver's Travelsis one of the major texts of the eighteenth century, and its satire of contemporary events and debates raises questions of genre, philosophy and politics. Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Swift's novel offers: extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and interpretations of the text, from publication to the present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of theRoutledge Guides to Literatureseries, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study ofGulliver's Travelsand seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Swift's text.

List of Illustrations

xiv

Annotations and Footnotes

xv

Acknowledgements

xvi

Introduction

1

(4)

1: Contexts

Contextual Overview

5

(15)

Chronology

20

(5)

Contemporary Documents

25

(1)

Letters to and from Jonathan Swift

25

(4)

From Swift to Alexander Pope (29 September 1725)

25

(1)

From 'Richard Sympson' to Benjamin Motte (8 August 1726)

26

(1)

From John Arbuthnot to Swift (5 November 1726)

26

(1)

From Alexander Pope to Swift (16 November 1726)

27

(1)

From John Gay to Swift (17 November 1726)

28

(1)

From Swift to Alexander Pope ([27] November 1726)

29

(1)

From Charles Ford to Benjamin Motte (3 January 1727)

29

(1)

Sources, Influences and Imitations

29

(16)

From Lucian, A True Story (c. 80 AD)

29

(2)

From Cyrano de Bergerac, Histoire de la lune. In English. A Comical History of the States and Empires of the Worlds in the Moon and the Sun (1687)

31

(1)

From Gabriel de Foigny, A New Discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, or the Southern World (1693)

31

(1)

From Samuel Sturmy, The Mariner's Magazine (1669)

32

(1)

From William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World (1697)

32

(1)

From William Symson, A New Voyage to the East Indies (1715)

33

(1)

From Alexander Pope, 'Of the Secession of Martinus, and Some Hint of His Travels' (1741)

33

(1)

From Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge (1667)

34

(1)

From Robert Hooke, 'An Account of a Dog Dissected' (1667)

35

(1)

From Nathanael St. Andre, 'An Account of an Extraordinary Effect of the Cholick' (1717)

35

(1)

From Porphyry, Isagoge (1697)

36

(1)

From [Anon.] A Trip to Ireland, Being a Description of the Country (1699)

36

(1)

From Edward Tyson, Orang-Outang, Sive Homo Sylvestris (1699)

37

(1)

From George Louis Leclerc Buffon, Buffon's Natural History (1792)

38

(1)

From Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, The History of Whig and Tory (1723)

38

(1)

From (Anon.) A Letter from a Clergyman to His Friend: With an Account of the Travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver (1726)

39

(1)

From Alexander Pope, Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver (1727)

40

(2)

From Captain Samuel Brunt, A Voyage to Cacklogallinia (1727)

42

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2: Interpretations

Critical History

45

(19)

Early Critical Reception

64

(8)

From John Boyle, Fifth Earl of Orrery, Remarks on the Life and Writing of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin (1752)

64

(1)

From Patrick Delany, Observations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift (1754)

65

(1)

From Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition in a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison (1759)

65

(1)

From Thomas Sheridan, The Life of the Reverend Jonathan Swift (1784)

66

(1)

From William Makepeace Thackeray, 'Swift' (1853)

67

(1)

From James Beattie, 'Essays on Poetry and Music as They Affect the Mind' (1776)

68

(1)

From James Beattie, 'On Fable and Romance' (1783)

69

(1)

From James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Of the Origin and Progress of Language (1786)

69

(1)

From Sir Walter Scott, 'The Life of Swift' (1824)

70

(2)

Modern Criticism

72

(43)

From William Freedman, 'Swift's Struldbruggs, Progress, and the Analogy of History' (1995)

72

(4)

From Dennis Todd, 'The Hairy Maid at the Harpsichord: Some Speculations on the Meaning of Gulliver's Travels' (1992)

76

(3)

From Clarence Tracy, 'The Unity of Gulliver's Travels' (1962)

79

(2)

From Frank Brady, 'Vexations and Diversions: Three Problems in Gulliver's Travels' (1978)

81

(3)

From Laura Brown, 'Reading Race and Gender: Jonathan Swift' (1990)

84

(5)

From Samuel Holt Monk, 'The Pride of Lemuel Gulliver' (1955)

89

(4)

From C.J. Rawson, Gulliver and the Gentle Reader: Studies in Swift and Our Time (1973)

93

(5)

From Robert Phiddian, 'A Hopeless Project: Gulliver Inside the Language of Science in Book III' (1998)

98

(4)

From Terry J. Castle, 'Why the Houyhnhnms Don't Write: Swift, Satire and the Fear of the Text' (1980)

102

(4)

From J.A. Downie, Jonathan Swift, Political Writer (1984)

106

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3: Key Passages

Introduction

115

(5)

Summary of Key Passages

116

(4)

Key Passages

120

(67)

A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson

120

(2)

Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput

122

(13)

Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag

135

(14)

Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan

149

(15)

Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms

164

4: Further Reading

Editions and Texts

187

(1)

Biographies

188

(1)

Essay Collections

188

(1)

Critical Histories and Casebooks

188

(1)

Book-Length Studies and Individual Essays

189

(4)

Index

193

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