ENGL 1080 Lecture 16: Gullivers Travels
3 Feb 2017
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Gt(cid:835)s structure: 2 versions, 1st edition did not contain book ii added later. Text adopts generic symbols of scientific discourse (maps, measurements etc), matters of empirical description, journey writing. Added to challenge a world view based on orthodoxy and superstition. Enlightenment is part of long and rocky history of secularization. Why is he ruling us vs. someone else) Emergence of empirical capitalism changing face of earth, swift writes anarchism. Swift pushes reason to point where we see the underside of reason (from a right wing position) Every act of enlightenment predisposes a barbaric act (moments of history grounded on war, genocide, etc. ) Thought that all yahoos should be destroyed. Yahoos are people (you and me), wynhams are horses. Only thing that gives gulliver his status is his clothes (he is a strange anomaly) authority. (cid:838)only way to deal with a difference is extermination(cid:839) 3 books version gulliver"s in control of his own story, has narrative.
