Comedy and Madness in Swift: The Idiosyncrasies of Lemuel Gulliver

Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English (UK)

Emelia Hamilton-Russell¹ 

[1] University of Oxford

关键词: Comedy;    Swift;    Madness;    Dramatis Persona;    Gulliver;    Satire;    Humour;    Travel;    Misanthropy;    Caricature;   

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: University of Durham

【 摘 要 】

Jonathan Swift has gone down in popular and theoretical history as both a visionary satirist and a confirmed misanthrope. This paper will revisit and challenge the latter assignation by questioning whether the protagonist in Swift’s seminal work Gulliver’s Travels is, as is often supposed, a ‘human instrument’ used to further Swift’s own misanthropic agenda.

【 授权许可】

CC BY