Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels A Sourcebook Edited by Roger D. Lund Routledge Taylor &. Francis Group NEW YORK AND LONDON Contents List of Illustrations xiv Annotations and Footnotes xv Acknowledgements xvi Introduction I I: Contexts Contextual Overview 5 Chronology 20 Contemporary Documents 25 Letters to and from Jonathan Swift 25 From Swift to Alexander Pope (29 September 1725) 25 From'Richard Sympson'to Benjamin Motte (8 August 1726) 26 From John Arbuthnot to Swift (5 November 1726) 26 From Alexander Pope to Swift (16 November 1726) 27 From John Gay to Swift (17 November 1726) 28 From Swift to Alexander Pope ([27] November 1726) 29 From Charles Ford to Benjamin Motte (3 January 1727) 29 Sources, Influences and Imitations 29 From Lucian, A True Story (c. 80 AD) 29 From Cyrano de Bergerac, Histoire de la lune. In English. A Comical History of the States and Empires of the 'Worlds in the Moon and the Sun (1687) 31 From Gabriel de Foigny, A New Discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, or the Southern World (1693) 31 From Samuel Sturmy, The Mariner's Magazine (1669) 32 From William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World (1697) 32 xii CONTENTS From William Symson, A New Voyage to the East Indies (1715) 33 From Alexander Pope, 'Of the Secession of Martinus, and Some Hint of His Travels'(1741) 33 From Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge (1667) 34 From Robert Hooke, 'An Account of a Dog Dissected' (1667) 35 From Nathanael St. Andre, 'An Account of an Extraordinary Effect of the Cholick' (1717) 35 From Porphyry, Isagoge (1697) 36 From [Anon.] A Trip to Ireland, Being a Description of the Country (1699) 36 From Edward Tyson, Orang-Outang, Sive Homo Sylvestris (1699) 37 From George Louis Leclerc Buffon, Buffon's Natural History (1792) 38 From Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, The History of Whig and Tory (1723) 38 From (Anon.) A Letter from a Clergyman to His Friend: With an Account of the Travels ofCapt. Lemuel Gulliver (1726) 39 From Alexander Pope, Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver (1727) 40 From Captain Samuel Brunt, A Voyage to Cacklogallinia (1727) . 42 2: Interpretations Critical History 45 Early Critical Reception 64 From John Boyle, Fifth Earl of Orrery, Remarks on the Life and Writing of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin (1752) 64 From Patrick Delany, Observations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift (1754) 65 From Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition in a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison (1759) 65 FromThomas Sheridan, The Life of the Reverend Jonathan Swift (1784) 66 From William Makepeace Thackeray, 'Swift' (1853) 67 From James Beattie, 'Essays on Poetry and Music as They Affect the Mind' (1776) 68 From James Beattie, 'On Fable and Romance' (1783) 69 From James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Of the Origin and Progress of Language (1786) 69 From Sir Walter Scott, 'The Life of Swift' (1824) 70 Modern Criticism 72 From William Freedman, 'Swift's Struldbruggs, Progress, and the Analogy of History'(1995) ' 72 From Dennis Todd, 'The Hairy Maid at the Harpsichord: Some Speculations on the Meaning of Gulliver's Travels' (1992) 76 From Clarence Tracy, 'The Unity of Gulliver's Travels' (1962) 79 From Frank Brady, 'Vexations and Diversions: Three Problems in Gulliver's Travels' (1978) 81 CONTENTS xiii From Laura Brown, 'Reading Race and Gender: Jonathan Swift' (1990) 84 From Samuel Holt Monk, 'The Pride of Lemuel Gulliver' (1955) 89 From C. J. Rawson, Gulliver and the Gentle Reader: Studies in Swift and Our Time (1973) 93 From Robert Phiddian, 'A Hopeless Project: Gulliver Inside the Language of Science in Book III' (1998) 98 From Terry J. Castle, 'Why the Houyhnhnms Don't Write: Swift, Satire and the Fear of the Text'(1980) 102 From J. A. Downie, Jonathan Swift, Political Writer (1984) 106 3: Key Passages Introduction 115 Summary of Key Passages 116 Key Passages 120 A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson 120 Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput 0 122 Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag 135 Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan 149 Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms 164 4: Further Reading Editions and Texts 187 Biographies 188 Essay Collections 188 Critical Histories and Casebooks 188 Book-Length Studies and Individual Essays 189 Index 193.