Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Liz Bellamy

(Critical studies of key texts)

Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Gulliver's travels

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-129) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This study of "Gulliver's Travels" emphasizes the political significance of the text and explores the connection between Swift's narrative structure and his political philosophy. Focusing on the function of irony in the text it sheds light on both the novel's satire and its ideological themes, such as the attacks on corruption, imperialism and colonialism. Liz Bellamy argues that the relationship between the narrator and the reader in the novel is used by Swift to symbolize the relationship between the ruler and the ruled within the polity. But, beneath Swift's satiric portrayal of the British political system lies his ambiguous attitude to his native Ireland. As a member of the Anglo-Irish elite, Swift was neither English nor Irish and, like Gulliver, he always felt himself an observer in a foreign land. This approach to Gulliver's Travels stresses Swift's uncertainty about the nature of national identity and ideas of the primitive and the civilized.

目次

  • Historical and cultural context
  • critical reception
  • theoretical perspectives
  • critical discussions of the text
  • guide to further reading.

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