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Gulliver’s Travels

The novel Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift was first published anonymously in 1726.  It is the story of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s doctor and captain who is shipwrecked in four different lands, where he is alternately a giant, a pygmy, a sane man among crazies, and a  human in a society ruled by horses. It was published anonymously because of the thinly veiled political satire of England’s powerful first prime minister, Whig party leader Sir Robert Walpole.

LINCCWeb online catalog – Search Terms

• Gulliver’s Travels (Subject)
• Swift, Jonathan (Subject)

Call Numbers for Browsing the Shelves

• PR3721 - PR3728

Circulating Books – A Selected List

• Bloom, Harold (Ed.). Jonathan Swift: Modern Critical Views. 1986.

                            Call Number:  PR3727 .J626 1986

• Bloom, Harold (Ed.).  Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. 1996.

                          Call Number:  PR3724 .G8 J66 1996

• Wiener, Gary (Ed.). Readings on Gulliver’s Travels. 2000.

                            Call Number:  PR3724 .G8 R43 2000

• The Writings of Jonathan Swift. 1973.

                            Call Number:  PR3722 .G7

Reference Materials

• Critical Survey of Long Fiction. 2^nd Revised Ed. – Call Number:  REF PN3321 .C75 2000

o       Vol. 7, pgs. 3143-3146

• Great Writers of the English Language:  Satirists and Humorists – Call Number:  REF PR85 .G66 1989

o        Vol. 10, pgs. 12-17

• Literature and Its Times – Call Number:  REF PN50 .L574

o        Vol. 1, pgs. 129-135

• Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 – Call Number:  REF PN86 .L53

o   Vol. 1, pgs. 426-529

o   Vol. 42, pgs. 290-378

o   Vol. 101, pgs. 246-250, 287-310, 334-344

• Magill’s Survey of World Literature – Call Number: REF PN523 .M29 2009

o   Vol. 6, pg. 2538-39

• Masterplots. Revised 2nd Ed.– Call Number:  REF PN44 .M33 1996

o   Vol. 5, pgs. 2711-2715

• Novels for Students – Call Number:  REF PN44 .N937       

o   Vol. 6, pgs. 74-100

• World Literature and Its Times - Call Number:  REF PN50 .M625

o        Vol. 3, pgs. 155-164

Research Databases

To access Valencia’s research databases, open your Atlas account, select ‘Search the Library’, then select ‘Databases A-Z’.

• Academic Search Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale
• OmniFile Full Text Mega

This Research Guide is designed to help users find information on a particular topic within the Valencia College East Campus Library.  This is by no means a comprehensive list of resources and other resources may be available on this topic.  Please check the LINCCWeb, VCC East’s online catalog, to verify the availability of circulating books within the library.  Feel free to ask a librarian for help if you need further assistance.