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Chapter 7 - Neville’s Utopian Vision

from Part III - Works of Exile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

Gaby Mahlberg
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University of Warwick
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Chapter 7 engages with Henry Neville’s fictional travel narrative The Isle of Pines (1668) as a work of exile. Like Sidney’s Court Maxims, Neville’s story of shipwreck and survival is a contemporary political commentary as well as a reflection on the nature and failings of patriarchal monarchy. It comments on the Second Anglo-Dutch War as well as the growing naval and economic power of the United Provinces versus England’s perceived decline since the time of Queen Elizabeth. In addition, it weighs up the strengths and weaknesses of patriarchal monarchy versus republican rule through an engagement with recent English history, including the Commonwealth, the rise of Cromwell and godly, republican rule and the Stuart Restoration. It is also notable for its use of Scripture, showing close familiarity with Old Testament texts while at the same time rejecting any literal interpretations of the Bible. Neville’s Isle is quite different in character from the radical Puritan writings of Ludlow and Sidney, not least on account of his chosen genre, yet, like Ludlow’s ‘Voyce’, it is also a deeply personal reflection on exile that engages with the vagaries of travel and making a home away from home, while remaining closely involved in the affairs of England.

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  • Neville’s Utopian Vision
  • Gaby Mahlberg, University of Warwick
  • Book: The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration
  • Online publication: 18 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894463.011
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  • Gaby Mahlberg, University of Warwick
  • Book: The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration
  • Online publication: 18 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894463.011
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  • Neville’s Utopian Vision
  • Gaby Mahlberg, University of Warwick
  • Book: The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration
  • Online publication: 18 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894463.011
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