A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of that Country
| Title | A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of that Country |
| Year for Search | 1727 |
| Authors | Brunt, Captain Samuel [pseud.] |
| Date Published | 1727 |
| Publisher | Ptd. by J. Watson |
| Place Published | London |
| Annotation | Satire. Begins as a Robinsonade, and then becomes a Gulliver tale with the hero visiting a land of virtuous chickens that had become corrupt and petty. Here the stress is on the differences between theory and practice. Finally, the chickens fly the narrator to the moon, where he finds a eutopia. The moon is described as a beautiful, verdant Arcadia. The Selenites are the souls of the virtuous from Earth. They are vegetarians. All are equal and have no need for government but revere their eldest as their prince. All souls are masculine. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. with the subtitle Reproduced from the Original Edition, 1727, With an Introduction by Marjorie Nicolson. New York: Published for The Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1940; New York: Garland, 1972; in The Virgin Seducer and The Batchelor-Keeper by John Clarke The State of Learning in the Empire of Lilliput Anonymous A Voyage To Cacklogallinia by Captain Samuel Brunt (New York: Garland, 1972), separately paged; and in Gulliveriana: IV. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1973), 1-43. |
| Pseudonym | Captain Samuel Brunt [pseud.]. |
| Holding Institutions | HRC, PSt |
| Full Text | 1727 Brunt, Captain Samuel [pseud.]. A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of that Country. London: Ptd. by J. Watson. Rpt. with the subtitle Reproduced from the Original Edition, 1727, With an Introduction by Marjorie Nicolson. New York: Published for The Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1940; New York: Garland, 1972; in The Virgin Seducer and The Batchelor-Keeper by John Clarke The State of Learning in the Empire of Lilliput Anonymous A Voyage To Cacklogallinia by Captain Samuel Brunt (New York: Garland, 1972), separately paged; and in Gulliveriana: IV. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1973), 1-43. HRC, PSt Satire. Begins as a Robinsonade, and then becomes a Gulliver tale with the hero visiting a land of virtuous chickens that had become corrupt and petty. Here the stress is on the differences between theory and practice. Finally, the chickens fly the narrator to the moon, where he finds a eutopia. The moon is described as a beautiful, verdant Arcadia. The Selenites are the souls of the virtuous from Earth. They are vegetarians. All are equal and have no need for government but revere their eldest as their prince. All souls are masculine. |
