The History of the Sevarambians: A Utopian NovelState University of New York Press, 01/02/2012 - 418 من الصفحات 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. |
المحتوى
| 1 | |
| 2 | |
| 9 | |
Part II 1679 | 57 |
THE HISTORY OF THE SEVARAMBIANS 1738 | 117 |
THE AUTHORS PREFACE | 118 |
Part I | 125 |
Part II | 161 |
Part III | 203 |
Part IV | 259 |
Part V | 315 |
Index | 387 |
O | 388 |
T | 389 |
W | 390 |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
The History of the Sevarambians: A Utopian Novel <span dir=ltr>Denis Vairasse</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 2006 |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
according Affairs amongst answered appear Authority beautiful began believe body brought called Camp carried caused Children City Command Company continued cou’d Country Creatures Customs Design desired Europe Father fear four gave give given Government hand heard Honour hope Hours immediately Inhabitants Island keep kind King Land Language Laws leave less Light live Love Lover manner Maurice means Miles mind Mountains Name Nature never night occasion offer Officers Osmasie Person Pleasure Power present Priests publick ready reason receive Religion respect rest River round seen sent Sermodas Sevarambians Sevarias Sevarinde Sevarminas Ship side soon sort speak stood Subjects taken Temple things thought thro till told took Town Trees true Water whole Women Wood World young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 1 - Siden, a worthy person, who, together with many others, was cast upon those coasts, and lived many years in that country; London: printed for Henry Burne, at the Gun, at the West End of St.
الصفحة xvi - No person whatsoever shall disturb, molest, or persecute another for his speculative opinions in religion, or his way of worship.
الصفحة xvi - No person above seventeen years of age shall have any benefit or protection of the law, or be capable of any place of profit or honor, who is not a member of some church or profession, having his name recorded in some one, and but one religious record at once.
الصفحة x - Sevarambians, where a great many men and a few women are supposed to be shipwrecked on a desert coast; the captain of the troop, in order to obviate those endless quarrels which arose, regulates their marriages after the following manner: He takes a handsome female to himself alone; assigns one to every couple of inferior officers; and to five of the lowest rank he gives one wife in common.
الصفحة xvi - No man shall be permitted to be a freeman of CAROLINA, or to have any estate or habitation within it, that doth not acknowledge a GOD; and that God is publicly and solemnly to be worshipped.
الصفحة 57 - THE HISTORY OF THE Sevarites or Sevarambi: A Nation inhabiting part of the third CONTINENT, Commonly called Terr<e Australes Incognita. WITH A further Account of their admirable Government, Religion, Customs, and Language.
الصفحة xx - Sevarambian romances : but these same worlds again would be very inferior to ours in goodness. I cannot show you this in detail. For can I know and can I present infinities to you and compare them together?
الصفحة xxi - It is certainly agreeable to think up political constitutions which meet the requirements of reason (particularly in matters of right). But it is foolhardy to put them forward seriously, and punishable to incite the people to do away with the existing constitution.
الصفحة 366 - The Genders of Nouns are three, the masculine, the feminine, and the common.
الصفحة xxiii - A short and methodical introduction to the French tongue, composed for the particular benefit and use of the English.