Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E726000-001
Travels into several remote nations of the World [...]
Author: Jonathan Swift
Background details and bibliographic information
File Description
Funded by University College, Cork via the Writers of Ireland Project
1. First draft
Electronic edition compiled and proof corrections by Beatrix Färber
Extent of text: 105,880 words
Publication
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
College Road, Cork, Irelandhttp://www.ucc.ie/celt (2006) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E726000-001
Availability [RESTRICTED]
Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only.
Sources
Editions and secondary literature- An excellent bibliography covering many aspects of Jonathan Swift's Life, his writings, and criticism, compiled by Lee Jaffe, is available at http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/bib/index.html.
The edition used in the digital edition- Travels into several remote nations of the World; by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon and then a Captain of several Ships, In four parts [...]. Jonathan Swift Revised edition [iii + 318 pp.] Printed for C. BathurstLondon (1766)
Encoding
Project Description
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
Sampling Declaration
The present text represents pages 1292 of the edited text.
Editorial Declaration
Correction
Text proofed once at CELT.
Normalization
The electronic text represents the edited text, but the spelling has been modernised. The author's practice of capitalizing certain words, or writing them entirely in uppercase was abandoned.
Quotation
Direct speech is rendered q.
Hyphenation
When a hyphenated word (hard or soft) crosses a line break, the break is marked after the completion of the hyphenated word. There are no instances of hyphenated words crossing a page break.
Segmentation
div0=the whole text, div1=the part; div2=the chapter.
Interpretation
Names of persons are not tagged. Terms for cultural and social roles are not tagged. Words in languages other than English, only extant through the writings of Captain Lemuel Gulliver, have been marked as such.
Canonical References
This text uses the DIV1 element to represent the Part.
Profile Description
Created: By Jonathan Swift
(sometime before 1726)
Use of language
Language: [EN] The text is in English
Language: [LA] Some words are in Latin.
Language: [IT] Some words are in Italian.
Language: [FR] Some words are in French.
Language: [LI] Some words are in Lilliputan.
Language: [BR] Some words are in Brobdingnagian.
Language: [LP] A few words are in Laputian.
Language: [LG] Some words are in Luggnaggian.
Language: [HN] A few words are in Houyhnhnmian.
Revision History
- (2008-09-24)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- Keywords added; file validated; new wordcount made.
- (2006-09)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- Proofing finished; header compiled; page-breaks inserted; SGML and HTML versions created.
- (2006-03)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- Proofing begun; structural and some content markup applied.