03515nam 2200625Ia 450 991078207950332120230912144608.00-7735-6235-410.1515/9780773562356(CKB)1000000000521387(EBL)3245630(SSID)ssj0000277665(PQKBManifestationID)11240457(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277665(PQKBWorkID)10234712(PQKB)10327651(CaPaEBR)400680(Au-PeEL)EBL3331318(CaPaEBR)ebr10141991(OCoLC)929121737(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/qcmf7b(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400680(MiAaPQ)EBC3331318(DE-B1597)658064(DE-B1597)9780773562356(MiAaPQ)EBC3245630(EXLCZ)99100000000052138719910319d1991 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe captive of the Castle of Sennaar[electronic resource] an African tale /George Cumberland ; edited by G.E. BentleyMontréal McGill-Queen's University Pressc19911 online resource (416 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7735-0742-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. The Sophians -- pt. 2. The reformed.The first part, set on an island in central Africa among descendants of classical Greek civilization, was printed in 1789 but immediately suppressed by Cumberland. A passage describing society everywhere except on the utopian island as oligarchic and unjust was deemed by his lawyer to be potentially seditious; the novel was only published a decade later, and then in revised form. The second part, set in central Africa's Mountains of the Moon among descendants of followers of a fourth-century Christian heretic, is published here for the first time. Cumberland was a widely cultivated and deeply humane dilettante. A poet, painter, distinguished collector of prints and shells, and scientific inventor, he was passionately concerned with the reform of politics and society. He was also friends with some of the best authors and painters of his time, including William Blake, who encouraged Cumberland's ideals. Bentley describes the similarities between Blake's radical analysis of society and his early ideas on free love, sexuality, slavery, natural religion, and energy and the ideals Cumberland espouses in The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar. Bentley provides historical and geographical appendixes, textual and commentary notes, and a comparison of Cumberland's work to Simon Berington's The Memoirs of Signor Gaudentino di Lucca. Bentley's edition of The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar will be of interest to Blake scholars and to students and scholars of utopian literature and late eighteenth-century and Romantic literature and culture.English literatureFolkloreAfricaEnglish literature.Folklore823/.6Cumberland George1754-1848.1545790Bentley G. E(Gerald Eades),1930-1545791MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782079503321The captive of the Castle of Sennaar3800886UNINA