The English Utopias I.

1. The English Utopias I. Early Modern Fantasies • Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines

2. Geography

3. Geography

4. Plot & Story • Van Sloetten’s Voyage to the W. I. • Meeting with William Pine: 3rd generation • Embedded writtennarrative of the beginnings:1stgeneration • Embeddedoralnarrative: 2ndgeneration • The FirstInsurrection • Introduction of Laws • Van Sloettenontheisland • The SecondInsurrection • Voyagehome

5. Plot & Story • The Beginnings – George Pine • The SecondGeneration – Henry Pine • The FirstInsurrection • The Introduction of Laws • The ThirdGeneration – William Pine • Van Sloetten’sarrivaltothe Island • The SecondInsurrection • Voyagehome

6. Composition

7. Composition

8. Composition

9. Composition

10. Recycling A Way to the East India's being lately discovered by Sea, to the SouthofAffrick by certain Portugals ... certain English Merchants encouraged by the great advantagesarising from the Eastern Commodities, to settle a Factory there for theadvantage ofTrade. (...)My Master ... took with him his whole Family, (that is to say) his Wife, and oneson of about twelve years of age, and one Daughter of about fourteen years,two Maidservants, one Negro female slave, and my Self, who went under himas his Book-keeper, with this company on Monday the third of April nextfollowing (...) we Embarqued our selves in the good ship called the India Merchant,of about four hundred and fifty Tunsburthern, and having a good wind, weon the fourteenth day of May had sight oftheCanaries, and not long after ofthe Isle of Cape Vert, or Verd, where taking in such things as were necessaryfor our Voyage, and some fresh Provisions, we stearing our course South, anda point East, about the first oi August came within sight ofthe Island of St.Hellen, where we took in some fresh water, we then set our faces for the Capeof Cood hope, where by Cods blessing after some sickness, whereof someof our company died, though none of our family; and hitherto we had metwith none but calm weather, yet so it pleased Cod, when we were almost insight of St. Laurence, an Island so called April the 26th 1667. We set sail from Amsterdam, intending forthe East-Indies; our ship had to name the place from whence we came, theAmsterdam burthen 350. Tun, and having a fair gale of Wind, on the 27 ofMay following we had a sight of the high Peak of Tenriffe belonging to theCanaries, we have touched at the Island Palma, but having endeavoured ittwice, and finding the winds contrary, we steered on our couse by the Islesof Cape Verd, or InsulaCapitisViridis, where at St. James's we took in freshwater, with some few Goats, and Hens, wherewith that Island doth plentifullyabound. June the 14. We had a sight of Madagascar, or the Island of St.Laurence, an Island of 4000 miles in compass, and scituate under the SouthernTropick; thither we steered our course, and trafficked with the inhabitants forKnives, Beads, Glasses and the like, having in exchange thereof Cloves andSilver.

11. The Framework Text

12. The Relation

13. Issues of Race and Slavery

14. Issues of Race and Slavery Boesky, Amy, ‘Nation, miscegenation: Membering utopia in Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines,’ Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 37.2 (1995:Summer) p.165-184.

15. Issues of Race and Slavery Boesky, Amy, ‘Nation, miscegenation: Membering utopia in Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines,’ Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 37.2 (1995:Summer) p.165-184.