Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
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Links: Course materials
This page provides pointers to Web sites useful for reading and study of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Sources in print are listed in a separate Bibliography. To add or correct items to the page below, use the handy comment form.
N.B. Currently, there are more broken links on this page than correct ones. I intend to rebuild this page one day, but not today. ldj 14/12/2005
Teaching Gulliver
- Hunt, Russ, "Modes of Reading, and Modes of Reading Swift"in The Experience of Reading: Louise Rosenblatt and Reader-Response Theory, ed. John Clifford. 105-126. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Boynton / Cook Heinemann, 1991.
- Book 4, Hard and Soft "In a now classic essay, "Gulliver's Fourth Voyage: 'Hard' and 'Soft' Schools of Interpretation" (Quick Springs of Sense: Studies in the Eighteenth-Century, vol. 18, ed. Larry S. Champion; Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1974), James L. Clifford describes what he sees as a struggle between two approaches to the last book of Gulliver's Travels."
- discussion about using the Travels to teach mathematics from the Geometry Forum
Teaching and the Web (see also Research)
Course Syllabi
- The Age of Reason? Jack Lynch, University of Pennsylvania, course syllabus
- "From Epic to Hypertext" Jack Lynch, University of Pennsylvania
- English 241, British Literature Brian A. Connery and Kathryn Balteff, Oakland College, Fall 1997
- Cultural Representations: Science and Technology English 122 ST, UCSB
- The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century: Interactive Syllabus for English 330, Shepherd College, WV, Spring 1998.
- Age of Satire D.C. Mell, University of Delaware
- Restoration and 18th-century British Literature: Nation, Gender, Class--Fall 1996, Stephan Flores, Univ. of Idaho
- Eighteenth-Century Poetry and Prose Univ. of St. Andrews
- Gulliver's Travels English 200: S.M. Lane, Malaspina University-College, 1997.
- LBST 302: Lecture on Swift Ian Johnston, Malaspina University-College, April 3, 1996
- Session 39: Gulliver's Travels Survey Of British Literature: Beginnings To 1784, University of Missouri-Columbus
- Literature 10: Literary Analysis and Composition John Farrell, Claremont McKenna College
- Survey of English Literature I, Thomas C. Kennedy Washburn University
- Travel Writing: Zones of the Imagination University of Melbourne
- Political Studies 10 Pitzer College
- English 374: Swift, Pope, And The Literature Of The Augustan Age: 1701-1745 - University of Victoria (Canada)
- Major Writers of the 18th Century Univ. of Texas course
- Writing About Exile Univ. of Texas
- World Cultures 102 Univ. of Evansville
- English 21: British Literature Syllabus, Univ. of Vermont
- Swift, Johnson, and Austen English 564, Dr. White Stephen F. Austin State University Summer 1995
- History of English Literature (to the Romantic Period)
- Honors Seminar: Voyagers, Vagrants, and Visionaries: Accounts of Travel in History, Literature and Film Univ. of South Dakota
Lesson Plans, Assignment Topics and Study Questions
- Romantic Pedagogies Online -- Romantic Circles site provides "resources for professors of Romantic Studies to help them design and use online resources for teaching."
- Discovery Channel School grades 6-8, 9-12
- Discussion Questions for Gulliver's Travels Univ. of Wisconsin, River Falls
- Will's Backroom Augustan Forum, online class discussions
- Essay Topics on Swift's Gulliver's Travels Malaspina University-College
- Education Planet
- Reading and Composition Site at UC Berkeley
- Study Guide Gulliver's Travels Univ. of Minnesota
- synopsis of the Travels De Digitale School
- Examination I Biology 101, Miami University
- Paper Topics: British Literature, 1750-1900 [sic], Andrew M. Stauffer University of Virginia
- Satire in Gulliver's Travels Language Arts Grade 12 Lesson Plan, World School
- Journeys of Discovery: Travels: Interior and Exterior Jane Anderson Jones, Professor, Manatee Community College
- Discussion Questions for Gulliver's Travels Steve Luebke, UW River Falls
- Lesson One: Gulliver's Travels Distance Learning, Texas Tech University
- Controversies Surrounding Gulliver's Travels Dr. Lucindy Willis, NCSU
- Swift, Gulliver's Travels Questions -- multiple-choice, online exam
Student Papers and Projects Online
(N.B. I have moved post-grad papers and more substantial undergrad works to the Literary Criticism section. This section contains clusters of class papers and briefer student works.)
For students looking here for shortcuts to writing their own papers, two considerations. First, copying is plagarism and it will get you in trouble. If you can find these essays, so can your instructors. Second, Sturgeon's Law (99% of everything is crap) applies here. Most of what you find on the Web isn't worth copying.
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Compiled by Lee Jaffe
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updated: 14 December 2005