Author: George Cumberland
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Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: George A. Cumberland
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773562354
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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The first part, set on an island in central Africa among descendants of classical Greek civilization, was printed in 1789 but immediately suppressed by Cumberland. A passage describing society everywhere except on the utopian island as oligarchic and unjust was deemed by his lawyer to be potentially seditious; the novel was only published a decade later, and then in revised form. The second part, set in central Africa's Mountains of the Moon among descendants of followers of a fourth-century Christian heretic, is published here for the first time. Cumberland was a widely cultivated and deeply humane dilettante. A poet, painter, distinguished collector of prints and shells, and scientific inventor, he was passionately concerned with the reform of politics and society. He was also friends with some of the best authors and painters of his time, including William Blake, who encouraged Cumberland's ideals. Bentley describes the similarities between Blake's radical analysis of society and his early ideas on free love, sexuality, slavery, natural religion, and energy and the ideals Cumberland espouses in The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar. Bentley provides historical and geographical appendixes, textual and commentary notes, and a comparison of Cumberland's work to Simon Berington's The Memoirs of Signor Gaudentino di Lucca. Bentley's edition of The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar will be of interest to Blake scholars and to students and scholars of utopian literature and late eighteenth-century and Romantic literature and culture.

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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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Author: British Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 756

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Author: British Library
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Author: Gerald Eades Bentley
Publisher: New York : Garland Publishing Company
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Antonia Forster
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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An index to reviews of 4982 works of poetry, fiction and drama published in England between 1775 and 1800, this reference tool offers easy access to reviews in many 18th-century journals. It includes reviews in all the main review journals, The Monthly Review, Critical Review, English Review, London Review, Analytical Review, British Critic, New Review, Anti-Jacobin Review and New London Review, the major magazines and 13 minor magazines or periodicals less well known in the area of book reviewing. Although the focus is on English periodicals, two Scottish magazines and one Irish one are included

Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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