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Part 1 Reading and identity: Swift's Tory anarchy, Edward Said; "Splendide Mendax" - authors, characters and readers in "Gulliver's Travels", Richard H. Rodino; extract from "Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word", Deborah Baker Wyrick. Part 2 Text and context: scriberian self-fashioning, Brean S. Hammond; text, "text" and Swift's "A Tale of a Tub", Marrcus Walsh; extract from "Swift's Narrative Satires", Everett Zimmerman; extract from "The Politics and Poetics of Transgression", Peter Stallybrass and Allon White. Part 3 The female monster: extract from "The Body in Swift and Defoe", Carol Houlihan Flynn; feminism and the Augustans - some readings and problems, Penelope Wilson; Swift among the women, Margaret Anne Doody; Freud, Swift and Narcissus - a psychological reading of "Strephon and Chloe", Thomas B. Gilmore, Jr. Part 4 Writing and meaning: why the Houynhynms don't write - Swift, satire and the fear of the text; deconstructing "Gulliver's Travels" - modern readers and the problematic of genre, Louise K. Barnett; allegory of blindness and insight - will and will-ing in "A Tale of a Tub".