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- Title
Trouble in Paradise: Misbehaviour and Disbelief in The Isle of Pines.
- Authors
HALL, SAM GILCHRIST
- Abstract
Viewing utopias and histories as two sides of the same fantasy enables an interpretation of Henry Neville' s The Isle of Pines (1668) that reads it as both a caustic commentary on the problems inherent in monarchical government -- especially when an absolute sovereign is dissolute -- and a profoundly self-critical utopia. It is primarily through its complex and, at times, parodic intertextuality with Exodus that this text offers an ironic commentary on the notion of paradise itself, a beguiling no-place, located in the dimmest recesses of the past, which continues to inspire blueprints for a better world.
- Subjects
ISLE of Pines, The (Book); NEVILLE, Henry; BELIEF &; doubt; UTOPIAS; HISTORY
- Publication
Anachronist, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 2, p387
- ISSN
1219-2589
- Publication type
Literary Criticism