Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels.(Book Review)

From: Utopian Studies | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Radner, John | Copyright information

Albert J. Rivero, ed. W.W. Norton, 2002. x + 511 pp. $12.80 (pb).

THE ORIGINAL NORTON CRITICAL EDITION of Gulliver's Travels, edited by Robert A. Greenberg in 1961 and revised in 1970, was enormously useful--along with A Casebook on Gulliver among the Houyhnhnms, edited by Milton P. Foster (1961)--when I first taught Swift in 1966, and had to figure out just how to make sense of Swift's deliberately vexing text. Albert J. Rivero's completely new Norton Critical Edition i...

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