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Gulliver and Beyond: a study day

Oil painting on canvas, Gulliver presented to the Queen of Brobdignag (from Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels') by Charles Robert Leslie (London 1794 - London 1859), 1835. An interior of a room. In the centre a table on which a minute Gulliver stands and kisses the little finger of the Queen's right hand. The Queen sits on the right of the table around which there are eight other people, including a kneeling dwarf, centre, with his back to the viewer. Two men stand to the left , one is receiving payment and holds the hand of a little crying girl. In Jonathan Swift's, Gulliver's Travels, Brobdingnag is the country of giants, to whom Gulliver was a pigmy 'not half so big as a round little worm plucked from the lazy finger of a maid.'

Gulliver and Beyond

Texts and their Afterlives Research Group
LERMA, Aix-Marseille Université
Monday 6th December 2021

Salle de colloques 1, campus ALLSH, Aix-Marseille Université, 29 avenue Robert Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence
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9h15: Welcome and coffee

9h45: Introduction and presentation

Morning panel. Chair: Professor Jean Viviès (LERMA, Aix-Marseille University)

10h00: Mickaël Popelard (University of Caen Normandy): The Philosophical and Scientific Background to Gulliver’s Travels

10h45: Jeffrey Hopes: “To behold my Figure often in a Glass”: Gulliver’s Travels and Lockean consciousness of self.

12h: Lunch break

Afternoon panel. Chair: Dr Ruth Menzies (LERMA, Aix-Marseille University)

13h30: Nick Seager (Keele University): Winking at Littleness: Scale, Species, and Satire in Brobdingnag

14h15: Daniel Cook (University of Dundee): Gulliver’s Clones

15h00: Conclusion


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Laurence Lux-Sterritt (November 19, 2021). Gulliver and Beyond: a study day. Britaix 17-18. Retrieved February 13, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/m581


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