Henry Neville

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Henry Neville (* 1620 ; † 1694 ) was an English author and satirist . He became known for his shipwreck tale and dystopia published in 1668, The Island of Fertility .

In the Neville family, the fourth generation sons were named Henry. His grandfather, Sir Henry Neville, served as ambassador to France. He was educated at Merton and University College , Oxford , but never graduated. He spent most of the English Civil War traveling through continental Europe. In April 1649 was elected to parliament to fill a vacancy as a member of parliament for Abingdon . By the end of 1651 he was a member of the Council of State , but was so hostile towards Oliver Cromwell that he temporarily withdrew from active politics. However, he returned to Parliament in 1656, as a representative for Reading and as a member of James Harrington's Republican group.

After the English Restoration , he was arrested in 1663 for treasonous practices, but released without penalty as he was not considered a threat. He spent the rest of his life quietly writing and studying. Neville wrote a number of satires, the most famous being The Parliament of Ladies . Before his death in 1694, he also published translations from Latin and Italian, including works by Machiavelli .

Text output

  • Caroline Robbins (Ed.): Two English Republican Tracts. Plato Redivivus or, A Dialogue concerning Government (c. 1681) by Henry Neville. [...]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1969

literature

  • Douglas Brunton, Donald H. Pennington: Members of the Long Parliament . Archon Books, London 1968 (reprinted London 1954 edition).
  • Worthington C. Ford: The Isle of Pines (1668). An Essay in Bibliography . Club of Odd Volumes, Boston, Mass. 1920.
  • Jürg Glauser : The textual dynamics of polygamy. On the circulation of fictional energy in early modern narration. The example of Joris Pines in the Scandinavian 17th and 18th centuries . In: Annegret Heitmann, Jürg Glauser (Ed.): Negotiations with the New Historicism. The text-context problem in literary studies . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1436-7 , pp. 273-301.
  • George Saintsbury : The English Novel . Dodo Press, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-4065-4283-7 (reprint of London 1913 edition).
  • Concise Dictionary of National Biography. Volume 3. University Press, Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-865305-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Neville, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English author and satirist
DATE OF BIRTH 1620
DATE OF DEATH 1694