GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
by JONATHAN SWIFT

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About This Project: Plan & Status


There are several distinct parts to this project:

  1. Mount a simple (ASCII) version of Gulliver's Travels available through the WWW (completed).

  2. Edit the text into an authoritative WWW edition of the Travels (completed first phase).

  3. Create a chronology or timeline that will include events mentioned in the Travels, in Swift's life, and his times.

  4. Produce a list of related online sources.

  5. Collect quotations from the Travels, as well as other works and writings by Swift, and comments about the Travels and its author. (in progress).

  6. Create a "hypermedia" annotated version of Gulliver's Travels, incorporating links from key words (and images) in the text to explanatory material. (For an example of the kind of work I envision, see the Jane Austen info page & Pride and Prejudice hypertext pages at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/.)

  7. Create a bibliography and textual history of publication of the Travels (in progress).

  8. Eventually, I plan to include contemporary accounts of exploration and travel, with a particular focus on early European contact with Japan. I would like to take full advantage of the WWW media to bring together a wide range of materials in interesting ways. I see this as a lifelong project and I plan to have as much fun with this as possible. This will probably drive serious Swift scholar nuts, but something tells me that he would have wanted it that way.


    About the project || Gulliver homepage
    Revised: 27 January 1998
    Comments to Lee Jaffe jaffe@scruznet.com