Gulliver’s Travels | Gulliver’s Travels

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Author: Jonathan Swift
First Published: 1726
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Fantasy—cultural exploration
Time of Work: 1699-1715
Setting: Various island communities
Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Adventure
Subjects: Values, Traveling or travelers, Voyages, Intellectuals, Folkloric or magical people, Mythical animals, Politics, Prisoners, Escapes, Social issues, Religion, Class consciousness, Human race, Eighteenth century, Islands, Kings, queens, or royalty, Rulers, Fantasy, Corruption, Shipwrecks, Adventure, Government, Horses, Satire, Giants, Royal courts or courtiers
Locales: England, Mythical lands

Gulliver’s Travels, as the book is now known, first appeared anonymously. Capitalizing on the lively interest in voyages at the time, Jonathan Swift called it Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World and ascribed it to “Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships.” Swift published the book anonymously partly because of the occasional scatological references but more pressingly because of the thinly veiled political satire of England’s powerful first prime minister, Whig party leader Sir Robert Walpole, whom Swift...

Gulliver’s Travels | Gulliver’s Travels

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