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Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels.(Book Review)

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20030101
Author:Radner, John

Albert J. Rivero, ed. W.W. Norton, 2002. x + 511 pp. $12.80 (pb).

THE ORIGINAL NORTON CRITICAL EDITION of Gulliver's Travels, edited by Robert A. Greenberg in 1961 and revised in 1970, was enormously useful--along with A Casebook on Gulliver among the Houyhnhnms, edited by Milton P. Foster (1961)--when I first taught Swift in 1966, and had to figure out just how to make sense of Swift's deliberately vexing text. Albert J. Rivero's completely new Norton Critical Edition is a major improvement over the earlier version, a book that should be useful both as a text in college ...

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