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Author:

Rawson, Claude Julien.

Title:

God, Gulliver, and genocide : barbarism and the European imagination, 1492-1945 / Claude Rawson.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

xvi, 401 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Swift, Jonathan,--1667-1745.--Gulliver's travels.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Swift, Jonathan,--1667-1745.--Modest proposal.
Montaigne, Michel de,--1533-1592.--Essais.
Ireland--Foreign public opinion, European.
Satire, English--History and criticism.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Genocide in literature.
Indians in literature.
God in literature.
Swift, Jonathan,--1667-1745.--Modest proposal.
Montaigne, Michel de,--1533-1592.--Essais.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Genocide.
Ironie.
Beeldvorming.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-379) and index.

Contents:

Indians and Irish from Montaigne to Swift -- The savage with hanging breasts : Gulliver, female yahoos, and "racism" -- Killing the poor : an Anglo-Irish theme? -- God, Gulliver, and genocide.

ISBN:

9780198184256
0198184255

LCCN:

2001033866

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)