The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain
"Gulliver’s travels" (1726), by Jonathan Swift, is one of the classics of English literature, a biting satire of English customs and politics in particular and of human foibles in general. While literary scholars have traditionally agreed that, in Part IV of "Gulliver’s travels", Swift uses his eleg...
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| Publication date: | 2020 |
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| Institution: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
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| Language: | English |
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| Keyword: | Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s travels Ecocriticism Animals Censorship Ecocrítica Animales Censura Filología Philology |
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| description | "Gulliver’s travels" (1726), by Jonathan Swift, is one of the classics of English literature, a biting satire of English customs and politics in particular and of human foibles in general. While literary scholars have traditionally agreed that, in Part IV of "Gulliver’s travels", Swift uses his elegant anthropomorphic horses and his filthy human-like Yahoos to reflect on society and human nature, some recent studies highlight Swift’s ecocritical concern with animal issues, focusing on how the behaviour of the noble horses challenges the conventional hierarchies of the anthropocentric view of the world and anticipates values that are prominent in today’s society. However, this article aims to show that what has traditionally challenged and disturbed readers, publishers and critics for many years is the presence of the other race of the animal world, the Yahoos. Analysing the reception of Gulliver’s journey to the land of the Houyhnhnms helps understand how Swift’s early ecocritical ideas disturbed publishers and translators, who often rejected or modified the text, particularly those passages in which the filthy human-like Yahoos show their harsh and scatological behaviour. |
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| spelling | The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto|||0000-0003-3236-9905 Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s travels Ecocriticism Animals Censorship Ecocrítica Animales Censura Filología Philology "Gulliver’s travels" (1726), by Jonathan Swift, is one of the classics of English literature, a biting satire of English customs and politics in particular and of human foibles in general. While literary scholars have traditionally agreed that, in Part IV of "Gulliver’s travels", Swift uses his elegant anthropomorphic horses and his filthy human-like Yahoos to reflect on society and human nature, some recent studies highlight Swift’s ecocritical concern with animal issues, focusing on how the behaviour of the noble horses challenges the conventional hierarchies of the anthropocentric view of the world and anticipates values that are prominent in today’s society. However, this article aims to show that what has traditionally challenged and disturbed readers, publishers and critics for many years is the presence of the other race of the animal world, the Yahoos. Analysing the reception of Gulliver’s journey to the land of the Houyhnhnms helps understand how Swift’s early ecocritical ideas disturbed publishers and translators, who often rejected or modified the text, particularly those passages in which the filthy human-like Yahoos show their harsh and scatological behaviour. "Gulliver’s travels" (1726), de Jonathan Swift, es un clásico de la literatura inglesa, una mordaz sátira de las costumbres y la política inglesas en particular y de las debilidades humanas en general. Mientras que tradicionalmente se ha considerado que, en la Parte IV de "Gulliver’s travels", Swift utiliza sus elegantes caballos antropomórficos y sus sucios humanoides Yahoos para reflexionar sobre la sociedad y la naturaleza humana, algunos estudios más recientes destacan la preocupación ecocrítica de Swift por temas relacionados con los animales, centrándose en cómo el comportamiento de los nobles caballos cuestiona las jerarquías convencionales de la visión antropocéntrica del mundo y anticipa valores propios de la sociedad actual. Este artículo, sin embargo, pretende mostrar que lo que tradicionalmente ha desafiado y perturbado a los lectores, editores y críticos durante muchos años ha sido la presencia de la otra raza del mundo animal, los Yahoos. El análisis de la recepción del viaje de Gulliver a la tierra de los Houyhnms ayuda a comprender cómo las incipientes ideas ecocríticas de Swift perturbaron a los editores y traductores, quienes a menudo rechazaron o modificaron el texto, en concreto aquellos pasajes en los que los repugnantes Yahoos, con forma humana, muestran un comportamiento escabroso y escatológico. http://hdl.handle.net/10017/63494 https://dx.doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9737 |
| spellingShingle | The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto|||0000-0003-3236-9905 Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s travels Ecocriticism Animals Censorship Ecocrítica Animales Censura Filología Philology |
| title | The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain |
| title_full | The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain |
| title_fullStr | The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain |
| title_full_unstemmed | The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain |
| title_short | The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain |
| title_sort | The representation of Jonathan Swift's human and non-human animals in Spain |
| topic | Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s travels Ecocriticism Animals Censorship Ecocrítica Animales Censura Filología Philology |
| topic_facet | Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s travels Ecocriticism Animals Censorship Ecocrítica Animales Censura Filología Philology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/63494 https://dx.doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9737 |