Sutherland, James
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1900-1996) Scottish academic and author whose Parody of the Fantastic Voyage genre, The Narrative of Jasper Weeple: Being an Account of his Strange Journey to the Land of Midanglia, and of all that Happened to him in that Country (1930), describes the discovery of a medieval Utopian Lost Race in the heart of contemporary England. Midanglia, a benevolent monarchy, lives according to egalitarian principles: equal pay for all; no marriage, no Religion, no high Technology. Tragically, however, an incursion of capitalists destroys this world. Sutherland was knighted in 1992. [JC]
Sir James Runcieman Sutherland
born Aberdeen, Scotland: 26 April 1900
died Eynsham, Oxfordshire: 24 February 1996
works (highly selected)
- The Narrative of Jasper Weeple: Being an Account of his Strange Journey to the Land of Midanglia, and of all that Happened to him in that Country (London: Eric Partridge, 1930) [hb/]
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