Introduction

Daniel Cook; Nicholas Seager

doi:10.1017/9781108909488.002

Introduction

Daniel Cook
, Nicholas Seager

Humanities

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Abstract

The introduction recounts the life and writing career of Jonathan Swift, centred on his authorship of Gulliver’s Travels (1726). It provides an overview of the action of Swift’s masterpiece, placing the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver in parallel to the events of Swift’s life: his education, early career as secretary to William Temple, forays into satire, political writings during Anne’s reign, and Irish writings in the decade before he published Gulliver. The introduction establishes the circumstances of its publication, the different states of the text (and its paratexts), and some of the main critical attitudes to the work. It summarises the chapters within the volume.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels
Editors	Daniel Cook, Nicholas Seager
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	1-8
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108909488
ISBN (Print)	9781108830195 (hbk), 9781108822008 (pbk)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108909488.002 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108909488.002
Publication status	Published - 2023

Publication series

Name	Cambridge Companions to Literature

Keywords

Jonathan Swift
biography
career
Lemuel Gulliver
text

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General Arts and Humanities

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Marsh's Library

University of Oxford

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