Gulliver's travels
the politics of satire
by Ronald Knowles
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The underlying thesis of Knowles's study is that Gulliver's Travels explores a dialectic between the commonplace and the wondrous, the fictive Whiggish Gulliver and the factual "Tory" Swift.
Knowles views Gulliver's Travels as a major document in eighteenth-century Europe's struggle between progress and reaction, with Swift's combative skepticism resisting all forms of "modernism." Swift's ironic viewpoint, incisive humor, and fecund imagination lend Gulliver's Travels a richness that has secured its status as a literary masterpiece; readers of Knowles's lucid commentary will come away with a renewed appreciation and understanding of this important classic.
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Imaginary Voyages, Travelers in literature, Politics and literature, Political satire, English, History and criticism, English Political satire, Voyages, Imaginary, Imaginary societies in literature, History, Voyages, Imaginary, in literaturePeople
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Gulliver's travels: the politics of satire
1996, Twayne Publishers
in English
080574617X 9780805746174
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-161) and index.
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