Description: The first study of creative and cultural afterlives of Gulliver's Travels produced over the past 3 centuries that covers work in the form of illustrated books, comics, graphic novels, films, animations, poetry, plays and pantomimes and much more.
Brief description: Daniel Cook is Daniel Cook is Associate Dean and Reader in English Literature at the University of Dundee, UK. He is the author of Walter Scott and Short Fiction (2021), Reading Swift's Poetry (2020), and Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830 (2013). His most recent books include The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels, with Nicholas Seager (2023), Gulliver's Travels: The Norton Library (2023), Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830 (2023), and Austen After 200: New Reading Spaces, with Annika Bautz and Kerry Sinanan (2022).
Review Quotes:
"Daniel Cook's Gulliver's Afterlives is a fascinating voyage into three hundred years of Swiftian adaptation and appropriation. This incisive study moves deftly cross media, eras, and cultures, providing an authoritative account of how artists have been impelled to react to Gulliver's Travels." --Nicholas Seager, Keele University, UK
"Impressively global in scope, Daniel Cook's book is a treasure trove for anyone interested in the fascinating afterlives of Lemuel Gulliver and his Travels. Theoretically informed yet consistently entertaining and accessible, Gulliver's Afterlives offers both nuanced discussions of individual examples of Gulliveriana as well as an authoritative and skilful synthesis of the complex transmedia universe generated by Swift's masterpiece." --Jakub Lipski, Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland