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Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism.(Review)
From: Utopian Studies
Date: 19980322
Author:Hart, Vaughan
Christopher Fox, ed. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism.
NY: Bedford Books of St. Martin's P, 1995. x + 480 pp. $9.33.
The reader of this volume is put in mind of Gulliver's meal in the Floating Island of Laputa: in the first course there was a shoulder of mutton "cut into an Equilateral Triangle," a piece of beef "into Rhomboides," and a pudding "into a cycloid," whilst the bread was cut "into Cones, Cylinders, Parallelograms, and several other Mathematical Figures" (155). For the five essays on Gulliver's Travels which comprise ...
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