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 |
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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.
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Literary form.
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Imaginary societies in literature.
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Satire, English -- History and criticism.
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Voyages, Imaginary -- History and criticism.
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Genre/Form |
Voyages, Imaginary.
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Author |
Smith, Frederik N., 1940-
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LC no. |
88040261 |
ISBN |
0874133599 (alk. paper) |
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