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NOTES

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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Tory_Party  From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia  <http://www.wikipedia.com> Webmaster: Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.  Consulted: 15th October 2010   2.     A Key, Being Observations and Explanatory Notes, upon the Travels of Lemuel Gulliver. By Signor Corolini, a Noble Venetian Now Residing in London. In a Letter to Dean Swift. Translated from […]

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Books: Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels, ed. Albert J. Rivero. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2002, p.5-250. Downie, J.A. The Political Significance of Gulliver’s Travel from Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels, ed. Albert J. Rivero. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2002, p.334-352 Hunter, J. Paul. Gulliver’s Travels and the later writings from The […]

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POLITICAL SATIRE IN “GULLIVER’S TRAVELS” PART I

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As we know, the first part of Gulliver’s Travels is a story about Gulliver’s journey to the country of the Lilliputians. From the very beginning we can see some strange similarity between what is being narrated by the author and what was happening in the foreign policy of England at that time. At the moment […]

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JONATHAN SWIFT’S POLITICAL BELIEFS

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We can say that politics interested Swift mainly because it could affect the stability and the strength of the Anglican Church of which he was a member. He was afraid that the restoration of the Catholic monarchy would lead to loss of liberties and privileges that the Protestants were given. Early in his life Swift […]

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HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT OF «GULLIVER’S TRAVELS»

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In general, from the very beginning, we can say that during Jonathan Swift’s lifetime (from 1667 to 1745) England was a powerful and rich empire, though there were internal political problems arising now and then during the 17-18th centuries. To start with, during the Elizabethan period, the English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada. Continuing the […]

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INTRODUCTION

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Jonathan Swift’s most famous and most ambitious literary work – Gulliver’s Travels – appeared for the first time on October 28, 1726, just over a month before the author’s fifty-ninth birthday. Originally, the title of the book was different, it was called Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, and it appeared as an […]

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