History of the Sevarambians

A Utopian Novel

AvDenis Veiras,John Christian Laursen

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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One of the great utopian novels of the early modern period.Reminiscent of More's Utopia and Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Denis Veiras's History of the Sevarambians is one of the great utopian novels of the seventeenth century. Set in Australia, this rollicking adventure story comes complete with a shipwreck, romantic tales, religious fraud, magical talismans, and supernatural animals. The current volume contains two versions of Veiras's story: the original English and the 1738 English translation of the expanded French version. Veiras's work was well known in its own time and has been translated into a number of languages, including German, French, Russian, and Japanese, while the English version has been largely forgotten. The book has been read to teach a variety of political doctrines, and also has been cited as an early development in the history of ideas about religious toleration. It reveals a great deal about early modern English, Dutch, and French attitudes toward other cultures. One of the first utopian writings to qualify as a novel, it can be interpreted as a metaphor for human life, in all its complexity and ambiguity.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-05-25
Mått:154 x 228 x 25 mm
Vikt:572 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:418
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791467787

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John Christian Laursen is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Riverside. He is the editor of many books, including Religious Toleration: "The Variety of Rites" from Cyrus to Defoe. Cyrus Masroori is Assistant Professor of Political Science at California State University at San Marcos.

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IntroductionNotesBibliographyThe Original TextsThe PrintsThe History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi The Publisher to the ReaderPart I (1675)Part II (1679) The History of the Sevarambians (1738) The Author’s Preface Part IPart IIPart IIIPart IVPart V Index

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