This volume helps readers situate one of the most popular adventure novels ever written, Gulliver's Travels, within the 18th-century process of inventing and resisting Great Britain. Ideas of nationalism-both Irish and British-are que...
In Jonathan Swift's bitter, witty, and utterly brilliant satire of the state of England in the early 18th century, his hero, Lemuel Gulliver (the epitome of the average man), becomes, as he travels, increasingly frustrated by the corruption...
John Dos Passos produced several major travel books, and also reported home from the Spanish Civil War and wrote about many of the major political movements both abroad and in the U.S. Here, all his travel writing is collected, including th...