Abstract

BORTOLANZA, Ana Maria Esteves. Bourgeois education in Gulliver's Travels: notes for a reading in a historical perspective of the classic literary text. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2015, vol.14, n.1, pp.137-148.  Epub Mar 20, 2024. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v14n1-2015-9.

The study examines aspects of bourgeois education in Gulliver's Travels (1726), reflecting the transition movement of feudal society to bourgeois society in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century in England. The corpus chosen for analysis was the sixth chapter: The customs of the inhabitants of Lilliput - its literature - its laws and way of educating children. The source is the first Portuguese edition of Publisher WM Jackson, Jackson Classics Collection. Historical research whose theoretical foundation is supported by authors such as Marx and Engels (1993), Alves (1993), Vygotsky (2006) and Swift (2005). Power would say that it is a satire on the education of English children, but also the defense of some pedagogical ideas of the tottering feudal society, intertwined in the discourse of Gulliver character. The study is a proposal for a universal classic approach to understanding the contradictions of unequal society we live in today.

Keywords : Bourgeois Education; Reading classic literature; Gulliver's Travels; Jonathan Swift.

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