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Lilliputian Education and the Renaissance Ideal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

R. E. Hughes
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Jonathan Swift's plan of education in Book I of Gulliver's Travels is both a picture in little of Swift's temperament through the whole four books—analytic, commonsensical—and a brief chapter in the history of Renaissance education—an ideal coolly reexamined and reformed.

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Research Article
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 1961 , pp. 22 - 27
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Copyright © 1961, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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References

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This article is second in a series; cf. History of Education Journal, vol. 0, No. 0, 1958, p. 000. References made in the present article are to the following editions: Gulliver's Travels, ed. William Alfred Eddy (New York, Oxford University Press, 1933); The Utopia of Sir Thomas More, ed. J. H. Lupton (Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1895); The Complete Works of John Lyly, v. II, ed. R. W. Bond (Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1902); The Diall of Princes, ed. K. N. Colville (London, P. Allan and Co., 1919); The Education of a Christian Prince, ed. L. K. Bohn (New York, Columbia University Press, 1936); The Boke named the Governour, 2 v., ed. H. H. S. Croft (London, C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1880); The Scholemaster, ed. Edward Arber (Boston, D. C. Heath and Co., 1898); The Boke of the Courtier, intro. Sir Walter Raleigh (London, D. Nutt, 1900); The Complete Poems and Major Prose of John Milton, ed. M. Y. Hughes (New York, Odyssey Press, 1957). Google Scholar