THE SMELL OF THE YAHOOS: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND IN THE NOVEL GULLIVER’S TRAVELS BY JONATHAN SWIFT
The novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift is usually considered a comic fable for children. However, it is a severe attack to politics, religion, and science in eighteenth-century England. As literary production is constrained by its own sociocultural context, it allows us to read a nove...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Uniabeu Centro Universitário (UNIABEU) |
| Repositorio: | E-scrita |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs2.abeu.local:article/2332 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revista.uniabeu.edu.br/index.php/RE/article/view/2332 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Literatura Satire; Jonathan Swift; Eighteenth-century England Romance quanto documento histórico |
| Sumario: | The novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift is usually considered a comic fable for children. However, it is a severe attack to politics, religion, and science in eighteenth-century England. As literary production is constrained by its own sociocultural context, it allows us to read a novel as a historical document. In this fashion, this work aims to analyze the main satires to the eighteenth-century England deployed by Jonathan Swift in his most know novel as a possible means to depict the zeitgeist he was immersed in. |
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