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Swift Experiment: Gullivers Travels and the Satire of Knowledge

 

Large Sections of Gullivers Travels, particularly Book III, take issue with the ideas and opinions of the Royal Society of Scientists. Using these two articles and Book III of the novel try to locate Swift's main criticisms of Enlightenment thought.

 

Patey, Douglas Lane. “Swift's Satire on "science" and the Structure of Gulliver's Travels”. ELH 58.4 (1991): 809–839.  Link on JSTOR.

 

Kiernan, Colin. “Swift and Science”. The Historical Journal 14.4 (1971): 709–722. Link on JSTOR

 

 

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