Gulliver's Travels

[Dave Monroe]

Grasped at the wrong word there.  Posting frenziedly
yesterday, as y'all might have noticed.  But there was
some concern about its reception, no?  Let me know ...


--- David Simpson <dsimpson at condor.depaul.edu> wrote:
> In a recent post Dave Monroe referred to:
> 
> >the thinly veiled allusions to contemporay figures,
> events, and
> problems in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (which was
> apparently so
> potentially incendiary that it was
> published anonymously)<
> 
> But Gulliver's Travels wasn't published
> "anonymously." It was published
> "pseudonymously." It was all part of a joke to make
> the book appear
> (well, at least for a page or two) like authentic
> travel literature,
> which was extremely popular at the time. The actual
> title was not
> "Gulliver's Travels," but "Travels to Several Remote
> Regions of the
> World." And its putative author was Lemuel Gulliver,
> Captain, HMN.
> 
> 
> --
> "For every journey there's a point beyond which it
> makes no sense to
> turn back. That point is your destination." --
> Kafka.
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> homepage: http://www.depaul.edu/~dsimpson
> 
> 


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