Further Reading
- Brown, Laura, "Reading Race and Gender: Jonathan Swift," Critical Essays on Jonathan Swift, edited by Frank Palmeri, New York: G.K. Hall, 1993, pp. 121–40. (Examines the presence of both anti-imperialist and misogynist, or anti-woman, sentiment in Gulliver's Travels.)
- Carnochan, W. B., "Some Roles of Lemuel Gulliver," Texas Studies in Literature and Language V, No. 4 (Winter 1964): 520–29. (Contends that Gulliver's Travels cannot be read as a psychological novel of personal transformation, arguing that the character of Gulliver displays change only when he consciously adopts a role and not because he has undergone personal growth.)
- Crane, Ronald S., "The Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, and the History of Ideas," in Reason and the Imagination: Studies in the History of Ideas, 1600–1800, edited by J. A. Mazzeo, New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 231–53. (Disputes many critical assessments of the meaning of Gulliver's fourth voyage, suggesting that Swift intended not to confirm but to discount the definition of human beings as rational animals.)
- Ewald, William Bragg, Jr., "The Character of Lemuel Gulliver," in The Masks of Jonathan Swift, New York: Russell & Russell, 1967, pp. 124–41. (Examines the character of Gulliver as a vehicle for satire. Ewald contends that Gulliver is a flawed hero who is nevertheless capable of recognizing and striving for high ideals.)
- Foster, Milton P., A Casebook on Gulliver among the Houyhnhnms, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1961, 319 p. (A collection including many seminal essays on the fourth voyage of Gulliver's Travels.)
- Hawes, Clement, "Three Times round the Globe: Gulliver and the Colonial Discourse," Cultural Critique, No. 18 (Spring 1991): 187–214. (Analyzes Gulliver's Travels as Swift's satiric response to the discourse spurred by Britain's colonial expansion and participation in the slave trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.)
- Monk, Samuel H., "The Pride of Lemuel Gulliver," The Sewannee Review LXIII, No. 1 (January-March, 1955): 48–71. (Argues that while Swift did not accept the Enlightenment belief in the perfectibility of humankind, he has been wrongly assigned the designation of misanthrope. Monk maintains that critics and biographers have mistakenly attributed to Swift the pessimism of his fictional character Gulliver.)
- Nicolson, Marjorie, "The Scientific Background of Swift's Voyage to Laputa," in Science and Imagination, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1956, pp. 110–54. (Examines the third voyage in Gulliver's Travels as Swift's critique of the science and mathematics of his time.)
- Price, Martin, Swift's Rhetorical Art, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1953, 117 p. (Close study of Swift's use of rhetorical devices to convey satiric intent.)
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