A call for submissions was issued by Joel Sodano, affiliate editor for Studies in the Novel, and Michael Brown, professor of history at University of Aberdeen, who collected and edited the pieces listed below. Their call, they noted, was "inspired by the versatile, prescient, and even protean prose of Dr. Swift’s most well-known work, Gulliver’s Travels (1726)." The collection represents three intertextual approaches to teaching Gulliver. Daniel Cook poses the historically contemporary pairing of Robinson Crusoe’s travels in comparison with Gulliver’s, while Jon Volkmer jumps both centuries and solar systems in helping students connect Swift’s satire to that of Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Linda Troost’s piece looks to film adaptations of Gulliver’s Travels to present a student-driven model of intertextual exploration.
Traveling with Gulliver around Campus
An Intertextual Approach to Part IV, Chapter 1 - Daniel Cook, University of Dundee
Gulliver’s Travels Adapted - Linda Troost, Washington & Jefferson College
Hitchhiking the Galaxy with Gulliver - Jon Volkmer, Ursinus College
Supplement: "Shipwrecked on Campus," from The Chronicle of Higher Education - Jon Volkmer, Ursinus College
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