Gulliver's Travels

A new, more reliable and richly annotated edition of one of the most important books in English literature.

Jonathan Swift (Author), David Womersley (Edited by)

9780521841641, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 September 2012

907 pages, 13 b/w illus.
23.6 x 15.8 x 4.4 cm, 1.56 kg

'This is a vast contribution to the Cambridge Swift Project … [It] will stand for many years as the premier edition of the work …' Jonathan Lamb, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

Gulliver's Travels is one of the few works of English literature which is also a landmark in world literature. Jonathan Swift's account of Lemuel Gulliver's adventures in the fantastical societies of 'remote nations' was an instant best-seller on publication in 1726 and has remained in the public imagination ever since, as both a satiric fantasy and an analysis of the human condition. This scholarly edition offers an authoritative text, based on the widest possible historical collation of the many editions published in Swift's lifetime; a detailed introduction and textual apparatus; and appendices and illustrations presenting important ancillary material with new clarity. Extensive notes and commentary open out the many layers of meaning and allusion in the text, identify new sources and parallels and offer wide-ranging historical background information. An important addition to the Cambridge Swift Edition, this volume will be indispensable for scholars and students of eighteenth-century literature and ideas.

General editors' preface
Chronologies
Introduction
Gulliver's Travels
Long notes
Appendices
Textual introduction
Emendations
Historical collation
Line-end hyphenation
MS readings from particular copies
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD]