The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels

TY - BOOK

T1 - The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels

A2 - Cook, Daniel

A2 - Seager, Nicholas

N1 - Copyright: © Cambridge University Press & Assessment 2024

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, has shocked and delighted readers worldwide since its publication in 1726. At turns a humorous and harrowing indictment of human behaviour, it has been endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted across media by other artists. The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels comprises 17 original chapters by leading scholars, written in a theoretically-informed but accessible style. As well as providing detailed close readings of each part of the narrative, this Companion relates Gulliver's Travels to the political, religious, scientific, colonial, and intellectual debates in which Swift was engaged, and it assesses the form of the book as a novel, travel book, philosophical treatise, and satire. Finally, it explores the Travels' rich and varied afterlives: the controversies it has fuelled, the films and artworks it has inspired, and the enduring need authors have felt to 'write back' to Swift's original, disturbing, and challenging story.

AB - Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, has shocked and delighted readers worldwide since its publication in 1726. At turns a humorous and harrowing indictment of human behaviour, it has been endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted across media by other artists. The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels comprises 17 original chapters by leading scholars, written in a theoretically-informed but accessible style. As well as providing detailed close readings of each part of the narrative, this Companion relates Gulliver's Travels to the political, religious, scientific, colonial, and intellectual debates in which Swift was engaged, and it assesses the form of the book as a novel, travel book, philosophical treatise, and satire. Finally, it explores the Travels' rich and varied afterlives: the controversies it has fuelled, the films and artworks it has inspired, and the enduring need authors have felt to 'write back' to Swift's original, disturbing, and challenging story.

KW - Literature

KW - English Literature 1700-1830

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105024162563

U2 - 10.1017/9781108909488

DO - 10.1017/9781108909488

M3 - Book

AN - SCOPUS:105024162563

SN - 9781108830195 (hbk)

SN - 9781108822008 (pbk)

T3 - Cambridge Companions to Literature

BT - The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels

PB - Cambridge University Press

CY - Cambridge

ER -