TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vairasse,Denis
AU  - Laursen,John Christian
AU  - Masroori,Cyrus
AU  - Vairasse,Denis
TI  - The history of the Sevarambians: a utopian novel 
SN  - 1423785487
AV  - G560 .A4513 2006eb
U1  - 843/.4 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Voyages, Imaginary
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Utopias
KW  - Voyages imaginaires
KW  - Ouvrages avant 1800
KW  - Utopies
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Early works
N1  - Includes "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; Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - "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."--Jacket
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