Questions for discussion:
What is satire?
What is a satirical novel?
In what ways can Swifts’s Gulliver’s Travels be viewed as a satirical novel?
What are the targets of satire in the novel?
How does the preface to the novel display the writer’s strategy to present his work as a “true” travel account?
In what ways could the novel be considered realistic?
Link to the novel:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/829/829-0.txt
Useful sources:
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swif by Christopher Fox (2003) Swif as Priest and Satirist by Todd C. Parker (2009)