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Swift's Gulliver: A question of freedom of slavery
| Title: | Swift's Gulliver: A question of freedom of slavery. |
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| Name(s): |
Goldstein, Lori Sue. Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor McGuirk, Carol, Thesis advisor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | 1991 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
| Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
| Extent: | 66 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | Although Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels in 1726, Swift's outrage at personal, social, economic, and political slavery can still be felt today, and his work continues to be significant. Criticizing institutions and human nature's tendency to trust those who wield political authority, Swift condemns our reluctance to safeguard our freedom. Swift exposes submissiveness and its consequence: a loss of liberty. Whether Swift uses allusions to Irish history, direct personal statement, or Gulliver as persona to reveal the self-destructive consequences of passivity, he "deliberately taunts those who might be so wise and yet remain so stupid" (Bloom 34). | |
| Identifier: | 14713 (digitool), FADT14713 (IID), fau:11504 (fedora) | |
| Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
| Note(s): |
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991. |
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| Subject(s): | Swift, Jonathan,--1667-1745.--Gulliver's travels. | |
| Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14713 | |
| Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |
