The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain

"Gulliver’s travels" (1726), by Jonathan Swift, is one of the classics of English literature, a biting satire of English customs and politics in particular and of human foibles in general. While literary scholars have traditionally agreed that, in Part IV of "Gulliver’s travels",...

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Autor: Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto|||0000-0003-3236-9905
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/63494
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/63494
https://dx.doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9737
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s travels
Ecocriticism
Animals
Censorship
Ecocrítica
Animales
Censura
Filología
Philology
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spelling The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in SpainLázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto|||0000-0003-3236-9905Jonathan SwiftGulliver’s travelsEcocriticismAnimalsCensorshipEcocríticaAnimalesCensuraFilologíaPhilology"Gulliver’s travels" (1726), by Jonathan Swift, is one of the classics of English literature, a biting satire of English customs and politics in particular and of human foibles in general. While literary scholars have traditionally agreed that, in Part IV of "Gulliver’s travels", Swift uses his elegant anthropomorphic horses and his filthy human-like Yahoos to reflect on society and human nature, some recent studies highlight Swift’s ecocritical concern with animal issues, focusing on how the behaviour of the noble horses challenges the conventional hierarchies of the anthropocentric view of the world and anticipates values that are prominent in today’s society. However, this article aims to show that what has traditionally challenged and disturbed readers, publishers and critics for many years is the presence of the other race of the animal world, the Yahoos. Analysing the reception of Gulliver’s journey to the land of the Houyhnhnms helps understand how Swift’s early ecocritical ideas disturbed publishers and translators, who often rejected or modified the text, particularly those passages in which the filthy human-like Yahoos show their harsh and scatological behaviour."Gulliver’s travels" (1726), de Jonathan Swift, es un clásico de la literatura inglesa, una mordaz sátira de las costumbres y la política inglesas en particular y de las debilidades humanas en general. Mientras que tradicionalmente se ha considerado que, en la Parte IV de "Gulliver’s travels", Swift utiliza sus elegantes caballos antropomórficos y sus sucios humanoides Yahoos para reflexionar sobre la sociedad y la naturaleza humana, algunos estudios más recientes destacan la preocupación ecocrítica de Swift por temas relacionados con los animales, centrándose en cómo el comportamiento de los nobles caballos cuestiona las jerarquías convencionales de la visión antropocéntrica del mundo y anticipa valores propios de la sociedad actual. Este artículo, sin embargo, pretende mostrar que lo que tradicionalmente ha desafiado y perturbado a los lectores, editores y críticos durante muchos años ha sido la presencia de la otra raza del mundo animal, los Yahoos. El análisis de la recepción del viaje de Gulliver a la tierra de los Houyhnms ayuda a comprender cómo las incipientes ideas ecocríticas de Swift perturbaron a los editores y traductores, quienes a menudo rechazaron o modificaron el texto, en concreto aquellos pasajes en los que los repugnantes Yahoos, con forma humana, muestran un comportamiento escabroso y escatológico.20202020-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/63494https://dx.doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9737reponame:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcaláinstname:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/634942026-06-18T11:13:07Z
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title The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain
spellingShingle The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain
Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto|||0000-0003-3236-9905
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s travels
Ecocriticism
Animals
Censorship
Ecocrítica
Animales
Censura
Filología
Philology
title_short The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain
title_full The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain
title_fullStr The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain
title_full_unstemmed The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain
title_sort The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain
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author Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto|||0000-0003-3236-9905
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Gulliver’s travels
Ecocriticism
Animals
Censorship
Ecocrítica
Animales
Censura
Filología
Philology
topic Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s travels
Ecocriticism
Animals
Censorship
Ecocrítica
Animales
Censura
Filología
Philology
description "Gulliver’s travels" (1726), by Jonathan Swift, is one of the classics of English literature, a biting satire of English customs and politics in particular and of human foibles in general. While literary scholars have traditionally agreed that, in Part IV of "Gulliver’s travels", Swift uses his elegant anthropomorphic horses and his filthy human-like Yahoos to reflect on society and human nature, some recent studies highlight Swift’s ecocritical concern with animal issues, focusing on how the behaviour of the noble horses challenges the conventional hierarchies of the anthropocentric view of the world and anticipates values that are prominent in today’s society. However, this article aims to show that what has traditionally challenged and disturbed readers, publishers and critics for many years is the presence of the other race of the animal world, the Yahoos. Analysing the reception of Gulliver’s journey to the land of the Houyhnhnms helps understand how Swift’s early ecocritical ideas disturbed publishers and translators, who often rejected or modified the text, particularly those passages in which the filthy human-like Yahoos show their harsh and scatological behaviour.
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