Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels A Sourcebook (Routledge Guides to Literature)

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is one of the major texts of the eighteenth century, and its satire of contemporary events and debates raises questions of genre, philosophy and politics.

Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Swift's novel offers:
· extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and interpretations of the text, from publication to the present
· annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself
· cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
· suggestions for further reading.

Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Gulliver's Travels and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Swift's text.