03656nam 2200613Ia 450 991096506540332120251116215103.00-7914-8168-91-4237-8548-7(CKB)1000000000463354(SSID)ssj0000172324(PQKBManifestationID)11180103(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172324(PQKBWorkID)10151428(PQKB)10140334(MiAaPQ)EBC3407743(OCoLC)868030887(MdBmJHUP)muse6416(Au-PeEL)EBL3407743(CaPaEBR)ebr10579166(OCoLC)923408841(DE-B1597)682736(DE-B1597)9780791481684(EXLCZ)99100000000046335420050725e20061675 ub 1engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe history of the Sevarambians a utopian novel /Denis Veiras ; edited and with an introduction by John Christian Laursen and Cyrus MasrooriAlbany State University of New York Pressc2006xxvii, 390 p. illIncludes "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 1679.0-7914-6777-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi -- The Publisher to the Reader -- The History of the Sevarites, or Sevarambians -- Part II (1679) -- The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambins -- The Author’s Preface -- The History of the Sevarambians -- The History of the Sevarambians Part II -- Part III -- The History of the Sevarambians Part IV -- The History of the Sevarambians Part V -- IndexReminiscent 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.Voyages, ImaginaryEarly works to 1800UtopiasEarly works to 1800Voyages, ImaginaryUtopias843/.4Vairasse Denisapproximately 1630-approximately 1696.460178Laursen John Christian281608Masroori Cyrus1891771Vairasse Denisca. 1630-ca. 1696.460178MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965065403321The history of the Sevarambians4535982UNINA