LEADER 03515nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910782079503321 005 20230912144608.0 010 $a0-7735-6235-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773562356 035 $a(CKB)1000000000521387 035 $a(EBL)3245630 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000277665 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11240457 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277665 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10234712 035 $a(PQKB)10327651 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400680 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331318 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141991 035 $a(OCoLC)929121737 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/qcmf7b 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400680 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331318 035 $a(DE-B1597)658064 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773562356 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3245630 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000521387 100 $a19910319d1991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe captive of the Castle of Sennaar$b[electronic resource] $ean African tale /$fGeorge Cumberland ; edited by G.E. Bentley 210 $aMontre?al $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc1991 215 $a1 online resource (416 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7735-0742-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. The Sophians -- pt. 2. The reformed. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aEnglish literature 606 $aFolklore$zAfrica 615 0$aEnglish literature. 615 0$aFolklore 676 $a823/.6 700 $aCumberland$b George$f1754-1848.$01545790 701 $aBentley$b G. E$g(Gerald Eades),$f1930-$01545791 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782079503321 996 $aThe captive of the Castle of Sennaar$93800886 997 $aUNINA