The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels

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· Cambridge University Press
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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.

About the author

Daniel Cook is an Associate Dean and Reader in English Literature at the University of Dundee. He is the author of Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760–1830 (2013), Reading Swift's Poetry (2020), and Walter Scott and Short Fiction (2021), as well as co-editor of Women's Life Writing, 1700–1850: Gender, Genre and Authorship (2012), The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2015), and Austen After 200: New Reading Spaces (2022).

Nicholas Seager is Professor of English Literature and Head of the School of Humanities at Keele University. He is author of The Rise of the Novel: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism (2012), co-editor of The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2015) and Samuel Johnson's The Life of Richard Savage (2016), and editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe (2022).

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