• ISBN13: 9788126903450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: May 22, 2004
• Pages: 144
• Original Price: INR 295.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 180 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Perspectives on Gulliver’s Travels is meant to be a useful guide for students as well as teachers. It embraces the entire spectrum of the various aspects of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. It deals with the life and works of the author, the philosophical background, satire, irony, misanthropy, misogyny, structure, prose style as well as the chapter-wise summary of the book with comments.

Dr. K.M. Jan is Head of the P.G. Department of English, M.S. College, Motihari under B.R.A. Bihar University, Muzaffarpur. He did his M.A. and Ph.D. from Bihar University. He has already published his book, The Poetry of Sylvia Plath: Confession as Art, an article, “Poetry and Criticism” in Perspectives on Criticism edited by Mohit K. Ray and A Guide to English Literature in collaboration with Shabnam Firdaus besides publishing a number of articles in the standard literary urdu journals. Shabnam Firdaus did her M.A. in English from B.R.A. Bihar University, Muzaffarpur. She has collaborated with Dr. K.M Jan in A Guide to English Literature and has published a number of poems in urdu and English.

• 1. The Life of Jonathan Swift
• 2. The Works of Jonathan Swift
• 3. The Sources of Gulliver’s Travels
• 4. The Criticism of Gulliver’s Travels Through the Ages
• 5. The Philosophical Background of Gulliver’s Travels
• 6. The Chapterwise Summary of Gulliver’s Travels with Comments
• 7. A Brief Synopsis of Gulliver’s Travels
• 8. The Significance of the Four Voyages
• 9. Gulliver’s Travels as a Children’s Classics
• 10. The Structure of Gulliver’s Travels
• 11. Irony in Gulliver’s Travels
• 12. Misanthropy of Swift in Gulliver’s Travels
• 13. Swift as a Misogynist in Gulliver’s Travels
• 14. Swift as a Satirist in Gulliver’s Travels
• 15. The Prose Style of Swift in Gulliver’s Travels
• 16. The Portrayal of the Eighteenth Century Life
• Questions of Answers
• Bibliography