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Title The Genres of Gulliver's travels / edited by Frederik N. Smith
Published Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, [1990]
©1990

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 W'PONDS  820.4 S977 A6/G6S  AVAILABLE
Description 265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Deconstructing Gulliver's travels : modern readers and the problematic of genre / Louise K. Barnett -- Afterword : style, Swift's reader, and the genres of Gulliver's travels / Frederick N. Smith
Introduction / Frederick N. Smith -- Gulliver's travels and the picaresque voyage : some reflections on the hazards of genre criticism / Maximillian E. Novak -- Exemplary history and the political satire of Gulliver's travels / Simon Varey -- Gulliver's travels and the novel / J. Paul Hunter -- Like me, like me not : Gulliver's travels as children's book / M. Sarah Smedman -- Gulliver's travels and the genre of the illustrated book / John F. Sena -- Scientific discourse : Gulliver's travels and The philosophical transactions / Frederik N. Smith -- Gulliver and the origins of science fiction / Paul K. Alkon -- Gulliver's account of Houyhnhnmland as a philosophical treatise / William Bowman Piper -- Reading "with conviction" : trial by satire / Janet E. Aikins
Analysis English fiction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Gulliver's travels.
Literary form.
Imaginary societies in literature.
Satire, English -- History and criticism.
Voyages, Imaginary -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Voyages, Imaginary.
Author Smith, Frederik N., 1940-
LC no. 88040261
ISBN 0874133599 (alk. paper)