The Isle of Pines, 1668: Henry Neville's Uncertain Utopia
Autor John Scheckteren Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 oct 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781409435846
ISBN-10: 1409435849
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1409435849
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
'This edition is already a labour of critical love, a book-length study of a seventeen-page piece of fiction.' Times Literary Supplement 'For Scheckter, The Isle of Pines is the very model of a modern major theorist’s dream text: a body of words upon which the twenty-first century’s favourite instruments for cultural and textual analysis may be employed for an exemplary dissection. And it is short enough for a very complete job of it, done with microscopic attention to every detail. Scheckter displays brilliant command of relevant theories that he lovingly applied to suggest what Neville’s uncertain utopia may reveal about ideas of race, class, gender, scientific method, any cultural identities as understood in the seventeenth century and (more fully) as many now understand them.' Science Fiction Studies ’Scheckter’s monograph impresses most by its sustained attention to a rather short early modern fiction. It manages to tease out a wide range of semantic layers that relate directly to a whole range of twenty-first century critical reading practices.’ Notes and Queries 'Everyone who wishes to study The Isle of Pines must engage this book...' The Scriblerian
Notă biografică
John Scheckter is Professor of English at Long Island University, New York. His previous work includes The Australian Novel, 1830-1980: A Thematic Introduction.
Cuprins
Introduction: “The Queens Royal Licence”; Part 1 A Critical Text of The Isle of Pines; Chapter 1 “Which Copy hereafter followeth”: Editions and Procedures; Chapter 2 “If hereafter any ?hould come and find them out”: Translations, Paratexts, and Ghosts; Chapter 3 “I ?hall enquire more Part Icularly”: Veracity, Uncertainty, and Narrative Structure; Chapter 4 “A great help to one another”: Gender, Race, and the New Society; Chapter 5 “The Countrey being thus ?ettled”: The Development of Indigenous Culture; Chapter 6 “The ?trange effects of Powder”: Anglo-Indigenes and European Encounter;
Descriere
In the first full-length study of The Isle of Pines (1668), supported by the first fully critical text, Scheckter discloses how Henry Neville's work offers a critique of scientific discourse, enacts complicated engagements of race and gender and interrogates the methods and consequences of European exploration. The volume offers a new critical model for applying post-colonial and postmodern examination strategies to an early modern work.