![]() This pressure is simultaneously applied to tradition understandings of Gillray as a broadly loyalist satirist. However, as this paper demonstrates, by reading and rereading the intertextual narratives between The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver and Gulliver’s Travels a far more complex interpretation of the print emerges, one whose nuances put pressure on both any contention that the print sought to communicate at a popular level or merely using instinctive loyalist readings of the print. Drawing on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) the print offers a seemingly uncomplicated loyalist rejection of the Napoleonic threat. ![]() ""This paper examines James Gillray's 1804 satirical print The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver.
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