Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Links: Literary Criticism, Commentary and Interpretation

Study Guides

• SparkNotes
• Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels: Cool Answers: Yahooligans and Electric Library - subscribers only
• Jonathan Swift Essays - paid termpaper site
• Gulliver's Travels Book Notes @ BookRags

• AuthorSheet on Jonathan Swift - bibliography of sorts of (unnamed) critical works about Swift within books; gives book titles, linked to catalog records, with pagination.
• Jonathan Swift: 1667-1745 Brown Univ.- collection of essays on different aspects of Swift's work
• Sites about Gulliver's Travels -- Online Literary Criticism Collection @ the Internet Public Library
• Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon [in German]
• Jonathan Swift: Reader's Guide: Bibliography of new and out of print books (an extensive sale catalog)

Individual Works

"Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift

• Satire Brian Connery, Oakland University, Department of English
• Satire.org a site/magazine dedicated to the art

  SAT-IRE (sat' ir), noun. 1. a literary work in which vices, follies, stupidities, abuses, etc. are held up to ridicule and contempt.

• Augustan Satire: An Annotated Bibliography Jack Lynch, 22 May 1995
• Satire Definitions Adapted from entries in A Handbook to Literature, C. Hugh Holman, ed. Indianapolis and New York: Odyssey, 1972
• Swift's Moral Satire in Gulliver's Travels Shirley Galloway, 1994.

Other

• Clark, Paul Odell. A Gulliver Dictionary. (item moved to Bibliography.)
• Jonathan Swift's Voyage to Laputa by Russell McNeil, April 7, 1998 -- Malapsina Great Books
• LBST 302: Lecture on Swift by Ian Johnston, Malaspina University-College, 1996
• Gulliver's Historico-Tropological Journey, or Measurement, Irony and the Grotesque in Gulliver's Travels by Matthew Levy
• Modes of Reading, and Modes of Reading Swift [As published in The Experience of Reading: Louise Rosenblatt and Reader-Response Theory, ed. John Clifford. 105-126. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Boynton / Cook Heinemann, 1991.]
• The Spectacle of the Growth of Knowledge and Swift's Satires on Science Ph.D. dissertation by Beat Affentranger - abstract and first 25 pages available for free.
• "On the Road to Canterbury, Liliput and Elphinstone -- The Rough Guide: Satiric Travel Narratives in Chaucer, Swift and Nabokov" by Sam Schuman
• Implicitness in Discourse. Christina Hellman, Ph.D Thesis, International Tryck AB, Uppsala 1992 [Excerpt], Chapter 1: Discourse Comprehension And The Study Of Discourse - study on understanding language, uses an example from the Travels.
• Misanthropology by Gary Saul Morson. New Literary History 27.1 (1996) 57-72 (@ Project Muse - paid access only)
• "Economics and literature: an examination of GulliverŐs Travels," by Marcelo Fernandes, Department of Economics, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy. Journal of Economic Studies. 28:2 (2001) 92-105.
• "Gulliver's Travels" Straniamento e agnizione dell'estraneo by Daniela Guardamagna (Italian)
• The compound eyes of Gulliver - outline of discussion of Gulliver's point of view in the countries he visited - by M. Itazu, with whom I have corresponded about his interest in Gulliver's visit to Japan.
• Carnivalesque and Grotesque excerpt from Nicolson, Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century by Nicholson, Colin. -- brief extract ("...in Gulliver the laughter is as often as not edged with pessimism and negativity.")
• Interzonality, and The Uncertainty of Geographies by Olu Oguibe - essay on borders which uses the recent television production as source.
• Nabokov And Swift, Achilles And The Tortoise: The Sublime Innocence, Or The Uncanny Return Of The Referent In Poststructuralist Theory Along The Lines Of Zeno's Paradox by Vadim Linetski - not really about Swift (he's not mentioned until two-thirds through the essay) but an opaque discussion about deconstructionism.
• Language And Literature In Intellectual History: Early eighteenth-century political literature as a historical source by Pasi Ihalainen - makes several references to Swift's writings.
• Gulliver in Houynhnmland brief, unsigned and comically inaccurate essay @ eCheat

Period Background

• BritishLiterature
  Restoration (1625-1700)
  Classism (1700-1780)

Newsgroup and Discussion List Threads

• Will's Backroom Augustan Forum
• Gulliver's Travels thread from the Geometry Forum newsgroup archive