Gulliver’s Travels: The 1726 Text : Contexts, Criticism

This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726text--the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative.It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations.

"Contexts"collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, aswell as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift'scorrespondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels, andrelevant passages from Gargantua and Pantagruel.

"Criticism" includes fourteen assessments of Gulliver's Travels by theEarl of Orrery, Sir Walter Scott, Pat Rogers, Michael McKen, J.A.Downie, J. Paul Hunter, Laura Brown, Douglas Lane Patey, Dennis Todd,Richard H. Rodino. Irvin Ehrenpreis, Janine Barchas, Claude Rawson, andHoward D. Weinbrot.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.