Book : Gullivers Travels (the Cambridge Edition Of The Works

-Titulo Original : Gullivers Travels (the Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of Jonathan Swift)

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Cambridge University Press

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Gullivers Travels is one of the few works of English literature which is also a landmark in world literature. Jonathan Swifts account of Lemuel Gullivers 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 Swifts 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. Review David Womersleys massive, magnificent edition of Gullivers Travels is cause for celebration … No edition of Gullivers Travels approaches this one in scope and authority. David Oakleaf, The Review of English StudiesDavid Womersleys new edition of Gullivers Travels is a scholarly feat - and feast … splendid … readers have never been better positioned to experience the manifold pleasures and surprises of this journey. Notes and Queries… [this] scholarly edition of Gullivers Travels is a treasure. Karen Swallow Prior, Books and Culture (booksandculture )This weighty tome fulfils with aplomb the considerable demands required of a new standard edition of Swifts masterpiece, and will be essential reading for scholars of the eighteenth century. Greg Lynall, Modern Language ReviewThis 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 Book Description A new, more reliable and richly annotated edition of one of the most important books in English literature. About the Author David Womersley is Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society.