Swift; Gulliver's travels: a casebook / edited by Richard Gravil
1994, Reprint. London: Macmillan. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly dust-toned and edge-nicked. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #340449
ISBN: 0333145224
Physical description: 256 pages 21 cm. Contents: Swift and his contemporaries, 1721-1784 -- Correspondence of Swift and his circle -- Romantics and Victorians -- The political significance of Gulliver's travels -- On the philosophical background of Gulliver's travels -- The final comedy of Lemuel Gulliver -- Moral satire -- Gulliver's voyage to the Houyhnhnms -- The rationale of the fourth voyage -- The metamorphosis of irony -- The fantasy world of Laputa -- Sin and satire in Swift -- The Houyhnhnm as Menippean horse -- Iterum Houyhnhnm, Swift's sextumvirate and the horses -- Order and cruelty. Subjects: Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745. Gulliver's travels. Swift, Jonathan. Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 Criticism and interpretation. Gulliver's travels Criticism and interpretation. Satire, English History and criticism.
Price: €14.95