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Further reading on Gulliver's Travels
ENG202: Eighteenth-Century Studies
Section A: Swift and his Circle

Suggestions for Further Reading on Gulliver’s Travels

General Works
Paula Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia (eds.), A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
Paula Backscheider, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
Laura Brown, Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001).
Leopold Damrosch (ed.), Modern Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).
Phillip Harth et al. (eds.), Eighteenth-Century Contexts (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001).
Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown (eds.), The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature (London: Methuen, 1987).
Steven Zwicker (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Bibliography on Swift and Swift’s Writings

The works listed below are the most influential and/or recent on Swift and his writing. They cover a broad range of texts; you should consult books in order to identify chapters that are particularly relevant to your interests.

Louise Barnett, Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Brian Connery (ed.), Representations of Swift (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002).
Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly and Ian Campell Ross (eds.), Locating Swift (Dublin: Four Courts, 1998).
Carole Fabricant, Swift’s Landscape (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995).
Christopher Fox (ed.), Gulliver’s Travels (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1995).
Christopher Fox (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Parody (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2000).
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Bibliography: Louise Barnett, Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Brian Connery (ed.), Representations of Swift (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002). Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly and Ian Campell Ross (eds.), Locating Swift (Dublin: Four Courts, 1998). Carole Fabricant, Swift’s Landscape (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995). Christopher Fox (ed.), Gulliver’s Travels (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1995). Christopher Fox (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Parody (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2000). Ian Higgins, Swift’s Politics: A Study in Disaffection (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Charles H. Hinnant, Purity and Defilement in Gulliver’s Travels (London: Macmillan, 1987). Robert Mahony, Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995). David Nokes, Jonathan Swift, a Hypocrite Reversed: A Critical Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985). Todd C. Parker (ed.), Swift as Priest and Satirist (Newark : University of Delaware Press 2009). Robert Phiddian, Swift’s Parody (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Ruben Quintero (ed), A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). Claude Rawson (ed.), Jonathan Swift: A Collection of Critical Essays (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995). Claude Rawson (ed.), Politics and Literature in the Age of Swift : English and Irish Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Claude Rawson, God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). Hermann J. Real and Helgard Stöver-Leidig (eds.), Reading Swift: Papers from the Third Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift (München: Fink, 1998). Hermann Real (ed.), The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005). Frederik N. Smith (ed.), The Genres of Gulliver’s Travels (London: Associated University Presses, 1990).

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