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Book The Isle of Pines

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2012-12-05
  • ISBN : 9781481170826
  • Pages : 38 pages

Download or read book The Isle of Pines written by Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Isle of Pines is a book by Henry Neville published in 1668. An example of Utopian fiction, the book presents its story through an Epistolary frame: a "Letter to a friend in London, declaring the truth of his Voyage to the East Indies" written by a fictional Dutchman "Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten," concerning the discovery of an island in the southern hemisphere, populated with the descendants of a small group of castaways. The book also has political overtones. Neville was an anti-Stuart republican, and as a political exile he was clearly conscious of the socio-political concerns of the end of the early modern period. The island narrative is framed by the story of the Dutch explorers who are more organized and better equipped than the English voyage of three generations earlier, and who are needed to rescue a small English colonial nation-state from chaos. It is interesting to note that the book was written at the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Henry Neville (1620-1694) was an English author and satirist, best remembered for his tale of shipwreck and dystopia, The Isle of Pines.

Book The Isle of Pines  1668

    Book Details:
  • Author : Worthington Chauncey Ford
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book The Isle of Pines 1668 written by Worthington Chauncey Ford and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration

Download or read book The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration written by Gaby Mahlberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a transnational perspective on 17th-century English republicanism, focusing on the lived experiences of English republican exiles.

Book The Isle Of Pines  1668  and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford

Download or read book The Isle Of Pines 1668 and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford written by Henry Neville and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Isle of Pines" is a book by Henry Neville published in 1668. It has been cited as the first 'Robinsonade' before Defoe's work. It is also one of the early Utopian narratives, along with Thomas More's 'Utopia' and Francis Bacon's 'New Atlantis'. The book explores the story of these castaways — the Briton George Pine and four female survivors, who are shipwrecked on an idyllic island. Pine finds that the island produces food abundantly with little or no effort, and he soon enjoys a leisurely existence, engaging in open sexual activity with the four women. Each of the women gives birth to children, who in subsequent generations multiply to produce distinct tribes, which are at war with each other...

Book Reading Fictions  1660 1740

Download or read book Reading Fictions 1660 1740 written by Kate Loveman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English society in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was fascinated by deception, and concerns about deceptive narratives had a profound effect on reading practices. Kate Loveman's interdisciplinary study explores the ways in which reading habits, first developed to deal with suspect political and religious texts, were applied to a range of genres, and, as authors responded to readers' critiques, shaped genres. Examining responses to authors such as Defoe, Swift, Richardson and Fielding, Loveman investigates reading as a sociable activity. She uncovers a lost critical discourse, centred on strategies of 'shamming', which involved readers in public displays of reason, wit and ironic pretence as they discussed the credibility of oral and written narratives. Widely understood by early modern readers and authors, the codes of this rhetoric have now been forgotten, to the detriment of our perception of the period's literature and politics. Loveman's lively book offers a striking new approach to Restoration and eighteenth-century literary culture and, in particular, to understanding the development of the novel.

Book The Isle of Pines  1668

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Neville
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2018-09-21
  • ISBN : 3734046963
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book The Isle of Pines 1668 written by Henry Neville and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Isle of Pines (1668) by Henry Neville

Book The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More s Utopia

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More s Utopia written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook of specially commissioned and original essays brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about the book: in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and its utopian legacies. It has been developed to allow readers to consider these different facets of Utopia in relation to each other and to provide fresh and original contributions to our understanding of the book's creation, vernacularization, and afterlives. In so doing, it provides an integrated overview of More's text, as well as new contributions to the range of scholarship and debates that Utopia continues to attract. An especially innovative feature is that it allows readers to follow Utopia across time and place, unpacking the often-revolutionary moments that encouraged its translation by new generations of writers as far afield as France, Russia, Japan, and China. The Handbook is organized in four sections: on different aspects of the origins and contexts of Utopia in the 1510s; on histories of its translation into different vernaculars in the early modern and modern eras; and on various manifestations of utopianism up to the present day. The Handbook's Introduction outlines the biography of More, the key strands of interpretation and criticism relating to the text, the structure of the Handbook, and some of its recurring themes and issues. An appendix provides an overview of Utopia for readers new to the text.

Book Kirby s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum  Or  Magazine of Remarkable Characters  Including All the Curiosities of Nature and Art  from the Remotest Period to the Present Time  Drawn from Every Authentic Source  Illustrated with One Hundred and Twenty four Engravings  Chiefly Taken from Rare and Curious Prints Or Original Drawings

Download or read book Kirby s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum Or Magazine of Remarkable Characters Including All the Curiosities of Nature and Art from the Remotest Period to the Present Time Drawn from Every Authentic Source Illustrated with One Hundred and Twenty four Engravings Chiefly Taken from Rare and Curious Prints Or Original Drawings written by R. S. Kirby and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dodo and the Solitaire

Download or read book The Dodo and the Solitaire written by Jolyon C. Parish and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds.

Book The  Kirby s  Wonderful and scientific  eccentric  museum

Download or read book The Kirby s Wonderful and scientific eccentric museum written by Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kirby s Wonderful and Scientific Museum

Download or read book Kirby s Wonderful and Scientific Museum written by and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World of the Book

Download or read book The World of the Book written by Des Cowley and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebration of the book drawing on the collections of the State Library of Victoria.

Book European Perceptions of Terra Australis

Download or read book European Perceptions of Terra Australis written by Alfred Hiatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies.