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Gulliver's travels : with an introduction and contemporary criticism / Jonathan Swift ; edited by Dutton Kearney.
- Title
- Gulliver's travels : with an introduction and contemporary criticism / Jonathan Swift ; edited by Dutton Kearney.
- Author
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
- Publication
- San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c2010.
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- Additional Authors
- Kearney, Dutton
- Description
- xvii, 434 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest satirical works ever written. Through the misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver, his hopelessly "modern" protagonist, Swift exposes many of the follies of the English Enlightenment, from its worship of science to its neglect of traditional philosophy and theology. In Swift's eighteenth century, as in our twenty-first, a war was being fought between the "ancients" and the "moderns", between those rooted in the traditions of the West and those seeking to uproot tradition to make way for dangerous and ultimately destructive new ideas. Swift's satire on the threats posed by the Enlightenment and the embryonic spirit of secular fundamentalism makes Gulliver's Travels priceless reading for today's defenders of tradition. Yet Swift's subtlety has bemused many modern critics, with the lamentable result that this classic of western civilization is often misread and misunderstood. This new critical edition, edited by Dutton Kearney of Aquinas College in Nashville, contains detailed notes to the text, bringing it to life for today's reader, and a selection of tradition-oriented essays by some of the finest contemporary Swift scholars. - Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Ignatius critical editions
- Uniform Title
- Ignatius critical editions
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Satire.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Early works
- Fiction
- Satire
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Gulliver's travels and the grotesque / Carol N. Abromaitis.
- ISBN
- 9781586173951
- 1586173952
- LCCN
- ^^2010923790
- OCLC
- 607985623
- SCSB-11533447
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library