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Histoire comique des États et Empires de la Lune (Other worlds: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon) influenced Gulliver's Travels
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The influence
Histoire comique des États et Empires de la Lune Other worlds: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon
Book · 1657
The work it shaped
Gulliver's Travels
Book · 1726
The evidence
Cyrano's Moon is a society that treats the human visitor as a curiosity and turns his customs back on him, the device Swift uses in Brobdingnag and among the Houyhnhnms. Swift's debt to Cyrano has been argued since the eighteenth century.
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