Chapter one examines the rhetorical mode of the pamphleteer. For purposes of analysis, I consider the story an androcentric utopia and I examine the text from this assumption. For my critical analysis of the text, my theoretical method employs the post-colonial theories of Bill Ashcroft and Frederic Jameson, and for the sexual themes in the text I use theory of Michel Foucault and Jonathan Dollimore. Similar to the settlers of the Imperial British Empire, who began to record their own histories, the fictional history of George Pines is also transmitted to England following one-hundred years of isolated, albeit accidental occupation, making it one of the first post-colonial texts. This thesis will exhume this long-forgotten story by acknowledging the radical fecundity and complexity of a groundbreaking novella in English literary history.
Abstract For a story which has been described as “one of the most successful literary hoaxes in the English language,” Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines has received little critical attention.
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