ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -PUBLISHING: Gulliver’s Travels was originally published without Jonathan Swifts name as a fake autobiography in 1726 and has been so popular that it has never been out of print since.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gulliver’s Travels has been described as a Menippean satire, a children’s story, proto-science fiction and a forerunner of the modern novel. Published seven years after Daniel Defoe’s successful Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels may be read as a systematic rebuttal of Defoe’s optimistic account of human capability.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was presented to the 18th-century reader as if it were an authentic travel book. On the title page of the first edition it was called Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, and its author was named as Lemuel Gulliver, ‘first a Surgeon, and then a CAPTAIN of several Ships’.

Detailed explanation-4: -Is that true? Gulliver’s Travels is a 1726 book by a Irish writer and clergyman and is listed as “a satirical masterpiece". ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Jonathan Swift is a fantasy text, and many elements of the novel are purely fictional. Lilliput is a fictional island where the Lilliputian people reside within the story.

Detailed explanation-5: -The author of the pseudonymous Travels was the Church-of-Ireland Dean of St. Patrick’s in Dublin, Jonathan Swift. Swift wrote that his satiric project in the Travels was built upon a “great foundation of Misanthropy” and that his intention was “to vex the world”, not entertain it.