Gulliver’s Travels
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Suggestions for Further Reading
Fox, Christopher. The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Hammond, Brean S. Gulliver’s Travels. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1988.
Hinnant, Charles H. Purity and Defilement in Gulliver’s Travels. London: Macmillan, 1987.
Knowles, Ronald. Gulliver’s Travels: The Politics of Satire. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.
Lock, F. P. The Politics of Gulliver’s Travels. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
Lund, Roger. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Rawson, Claude Julien. God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Smith, Frederick N., ed. The Genres of Gulliver’s Travels. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1990.
Tippett, Brian. Gulliver’s Travels. Basingstoke, England: Macmillan, 1989.
It is not a Novel, it is a Satire
by -Salem-, May 17, 2013
The type of work is Satire, not Novel, because it happened before the Novel tradition started, and because it is a parody.
