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A 10 page research paper that examines how Jonathan Swift's classic Gulliver's Travels, which is a biting adult satire was transformed into a staple of children's literature. The writer summarizes Jackie Stallcup's insightful history and analysis of Gulliver's myriad children's adaptations. This review establishes the fact that adaptations of classics into children's books says a great deal about adult agendas, and provides backdrop for an investigation into current adaptations of Swift's work. In this regard, several reviews of contemporary adaptations of Gulliver, which are intended for children, are analyzed in order to determine the current editorial agenda for how this classic of English satire is perceived and presented to children. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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is best known for the novel he entitled Travels into Several Remote National of the World by Lemuel Gulliver, would be appalled to learn that the novel he wrote "to
vest the world rather than divert it" had become a childrens classic (Hoffman 38). Swifts biting, sophisticated and witty satire has been "bowdlerized, red-pencilled, and repackaged" as part of the
process of transforming it into a "19th and early-20th-century juvenile favorite" (Hoffman 38). The following examination of how adult satire became childrens literature, first of all, summarizes Jackie Stallcups insightful
history and analysis of Gullivers myriad childrens adaptations. This review establishes the fact that adaptations of classics into childrens books says a great deal about adult agendas, and provides backdrop
for an investigation into current adaptations of Swifts work. In this regard, several reviews of contemporary adaptations of Gulliver, which are intended for children, are analyzed in order to determine
the current editorial agenda for how this classic of English satire is perceived and presented to children. Gullivers transformation into childrens literature Swifts Gullivers Travels is a "lengthy, complex,
uninhibited, and savage social satire" that provides Swift with a medium to lampoon the human foibles and politics of England in the early eighteenth century and concludes by describing
the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate for childrens reading" (Stallcup 87). However, in the centuries since its initial
publication in 1726, Gullivers Travels has become inextricably associated with childrens literature. As numerous editors and commentators have pointed out, it is not surprising that children have long been attracted
to this story as they resemble Gulliver, its hero, in many ways. On the one hand, they can identify with the Lilliputian world, as children are "giants among their dolls
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