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Agri Culture
Author_John Scheckter
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colonial encounter
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Combined Version
Communal Sustenance
Contemporary Society
Drawn Back
early modern literature
Earth Quake
East Indies
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Francis Blackburne
Gabriel Plattes
George Pine
Grand Children
Grand Father
henry
indigenous cultural development
Italic Capitals
narration
narrative reliability
neville
Pine's Narration
pines
Pines Population
Pine’s Narration
plato
Plato Redivivus
postcolonial analysis
postcolonial critique of utopian fiction
Publick Employment
race and gender studies
redivivus
Samuel Green
Self-perceived Burden
Single Folio Sheet
sloetten
Thomas Cadell
van
Van Sloetten
Vice Versa
william
William Pines
Wing's Short Title Catalogue
Wing’s Short Title Catalogue
Product details
- ISBN 9781409435846
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A short fiction of shipwreck and discovery written by the politician Henry Neville (1620-1694), The Isle of Pines is only beginning to draw critical attention, and until now no scholarly edition of the work has appeared. In the first full-length study of The Isle of Pines, supported by the first fully critical edition, John Scheckter discloses how 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. Scheckter argues that the structure and publication history of the fiction, with its separate, unreliable narrators, along with its several topics-shipwreck survival, the founding of a new society, the initial phases of European colonization-are imbued with the sense of uncertainty that permeated the era.
John Scheckter is Professor of English at Long Island University, New York. His previous work includes The Australian Novel, 1830-1980: A Thematic Introduction.
