The English Utopias I.Early Modern Fantasies

Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines

Geography

Geography

Plot & Story

Van Sloetten’s Voyage to the W. I.

Meeting with William Pine: 3rd generation

Embedded written narrative of the beginnings:1st generation

Embedded oral narrative: 2nd generationThe First InsurrectionIntroduction of Laws

Van Sloetten on the islandThe Second Insurrection

Voyage home

Plot & Story

1.The Beginnings – George Pine

2.The Second Generation – Henry Pine1.The First Insurrection2.The Introduction of Laws

3.The Third Generation – William Pine

4.Van Sloetten’s arrival to the Island

5.The Second Insurrection

6.Voyage home

Composition

Composition

Composition

Composition

April the 26th 1667. We set sail from Amsterdam, intending for the East-Indies; our ship had to name the place from whence we came, the Amsterdam burthen 350. Tun, and having a fair gale of Wind, on the 27 of May following we had a sight of the high Peak of Tenriffe belonging to the Canaries, we have touched at the Island Palma, but having endeavoured it twice, and finding the winds contrary, we steered on our couse by the Isles of Cape Verd, or Insula Capitis Viridis, where at St. James's we took in fresh water, with some few Goats, and Hens, wherewith that Island doth plentifully abound.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 Southern Tropick; thither we steered our course, and trafficked with the inhabitants for Knives, Beads, Glasses and the like, having in exchange thereof Cloves and Silver.

A Way to the East India's being lately discovered by Sea, to the South of Affrick by certain Portugals ... certain English Merchants encouraged by the great advantages arising from the Eastern Commodities, to settle a Factory there for the advantage of Trade. (...) My Master ... took with him his whole Family, (that is to say) his Wife, and one son 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 him as his Book-keeper, with this company on Monday the third of April next following (...) we Embarqued our selves in the good ship called the India Merchant, of about four hundred and fifty Tuns burthern, and having a good wind, we on the fourteenth day of May had sight ofthe Canaries, and not long after of the Isle of Cape Vert, or Verd, where taking in such things as were necessary for our Voyage, and some fresh Provisions, we stearing our course South, and a point East, about the first oi August came within sight of the Island of St. Hellen, where we took in some fresh water, we then set our faces for the Cape of Cood hope, where by Cods blessing after some sickness, whereof some of our company died, though none of our family; and hitherto we had met with none but calm weather, yet so it pleased Cod, when we were almost in sight of St. Laurence, an Island so called

Recycling

The Framework Text

The Relation

Issues of Race and Slavery

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.

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.