The Mutual Adventures of Jonathan Swift and Lemuel Gulliver—A Study in Pathography

This study has emerged from an interest in distortions in the body image involving sensations of change in size, either of the entire body or some part of the body, sensations which I believe to be of particular significance in fetishism. It is extracted from a book in preparation about Dean Swift and Lewis Carroll, with special reference to their lives in connection with their famous literary masterpieces, Gulliver's Travels and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in both of which such distortions of the body play a noteworthy role.

Swift was a remarkable man of picturesque contradictions. He was secretive, enigmatic, touchy, inordinately power-driven and active; always in the public eye, he was conspicuously afraid of gossip, and had many hiding places. He was a political power in his day in both England and Ireland, and in his activities swung like a pendulum between the two countries during much of his adult life. He rarely wrote or talked directly of his own experiences; yet he celebrated himself flagrantly in poetry and was never modest. He became known for his satirical prose and his obscene verses; yet in speech he was generally charming, immaculate, and witty. He wrote often under pseudonyms, a not uncommon practice of the time; he would wait until he could see the success of his anonymous pamphlet and when it was attributed to someone else, would come forth and angrily claim it, seemingly after having sat back and laughed at the