DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Swift: Gulliver's Travels

Howard Erskine-Hill author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:30th Jul '93

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Swift: Gulliver's Travels cover

This is a critical introduction that gives a fresh and impartial account of the world-famous satire. It explores the historical and literary backgrounds, Swift's narrative and stylistic art and discusses the the relation of the four parts of the Travels to one another.This critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels aims at giving a fresh and impartial account of the world-famous satire. It characterises the significant historical and literary background to the work, and explores the text itself in the reading order intended by Swift. It gives proper attention to Swift's narrative and stylistic art, and to the experience of the reader, which have tended to be neglected in the course of prolonged academic arguments over interpretation. It also discusses the relation of the four parts of the Travels to one another. A final chapter sketches the fictional aftermath of the Travels from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9780521338424

Dimensions: 203mm x 127mm x 8mm

Weight: 150g

128 pages