Gulliver's solitude: The paradoxes of swift's anti-individulaism.(Critical Essay) From: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: Montag, Warren | COPYRIGHT 2001 Texas Tech University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Is it possible to read Gulliver's Travels as a philosophical work? Is it possible not simply to identify philosophical references or allusions in Swift's text in the manner of readers who have discovered the presence of Platonic philosophy in Part IV, (1) but to read the work as a set of philosophical arguments, even if these arguments are expressed in a specific and highly "literary" form? To pose such a question is to provoke the ire of at least two distinct sets of readers. On t...