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The history of the Sevarambians : a utopian novel /
"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, religiou...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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."--Jacket |
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| Notas: | Includes "The history of the Sevarambians" published in French (5 parts) and translated into English in 1738; and "The history of the Sevarites or Sevarambi," part one published in 1675, and part two published in 1679. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 390 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423785487 9781423785484 0791467775 0791467783 9780791467787 9780791467770 9780791481684 0791481689 |