Article: The publishing history of The Isle of Pines.(The Isle of Pines: Textual History)

The most striking feature of The Isle of Pines is its complicated publishing history. Not only did the piece appear in three different parts, it also soon developed a life of its own as it travelled around the world through many foreign translations and a variety of adaptations. Judging by the attention it has received since its first publication from both contemporary readers and modern scholars, The Isle, not Plato Redivivus--a weighty political treatise of 1681--should thus be considered Neville's most important and arguably most influential work. In what follows, we will outline the history of The Isle as far as it can be reconstructed from the material available to ...

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