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The History of the Sevarambians: A Utopian Novel Paperback - 2006

by Denis Veiras; John Christian Laursen (Editor); Introduction by John Christian Laursen


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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.

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There are many, who having read Plato's Commonwealth, Sir Thomas More's Utopia, the Lord Verulam's New Atlantis, (which are but Ideas and ingenious fancies) are apt to suspect all relations of new discoveries to be of that kind; and chiefly when they find in them any thing extraordinary and wonderful.

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  • Title The History of the Sevarambians: A Utopian Novel
  • Author Denis Veiras; John Christian Laursen (Editor); Introduction by John Christian Laursen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 418
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press, New York
  • Date July 30, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780791467787 / 0791467783
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.06 x 1 in (22.81 x 15.39 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Utopias, Voyages, Imaginary
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005021346
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

John Christian Laursen is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Riverside. He is the editor of many books, including Religious Toleration: "The Variety of Rites" from Cyrus to Defoe. Cyrus Masroori is Assistant Professor of Political Science at California State University at San Marcos.
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