Title: Gulliver's travels
First published: 1996
Description: 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.
Subjects: 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 literature
Places: Great Britain
People: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: PR3724.G8 K66 1996