Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Modern Critical Interpretations)

This edition of Modern Critical Interpretations focuses on Jonathan Swift?s Gulliver?s Travels. Gathered here are a collection of well-respected critical essays on the text, discussing topics such as the philosophical background of the work, the paradox of man, the displaced man, and more. The title, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Jonathan Swift, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.