In 1829 Robert Southey published a book of his imaginary conversations with the original Utopian: Sir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. The product of almost two decades of social and political engagement, Colloquies is Southey’s most important late prose work, and a key text of late 'Lake School' Romanticism. It is Southey’s own Espriella’s Letters (1807) reimagined as a dialogue of tory and radical selves; Coleridge’s Church and State (1830) cast in historical dramatic form. Over a series of wide-ranging conversations between the Ghost of More and his own Spanish alter-ego, ‘Montesinos’, Southey develops a richly detailed panorama of British history since the 1530s – from the Reformation to Catholic Emancipation. Exploring issues of religious toleration, urban poverty, and constitutional reform, and mixing the genres of dialogue, commonplace book, and picturesque guide, the Colloquies became a source of challenge and inspiration for important Victorian writers including Macaulay, Ruskin, Pugin and Carlyle.
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Volume IList of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Preface Robert Southey: a Selective Chronology 1808–1843 List of AbbreviationsIntroductionProgress and Prospects: Sir Thomas More and Romantic HistoryThe Social Context: Southey and Robert OwenOrigins and CompositionPublication and ReceptionThis EditionNote on the text and editorial proceduresSIR THOMAS MORE: OR, COLLOQUIES ON THE PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF SOCIETY. (1829)Volume IDedicationPrefaceI. Colloquy I. The Introduction.II. Colloquy II. The Improvement Of The World. III. Colloquy III. The Druidical Stones.—Visitations Of Pestilence.IV. Colloquy IV. Feudal Slavery.—Growth Of Pauperism.V. Colloquy V. Decay of the Feudal System.—Edward VI.—Alfred.VI. Colloquy VI. Walla Crag.—Owen Of Lanark.VII. Colloquy VII. The Manufacturing System.Part II. Manufacturing System. —National Wealth.VIII. Colloquy VIII. Steam—War—Prospects Of Europe.IX. Colloquy IX. Derwentwater—Catholic Emancipation—Ireland.Volume IIX. Colloquy X. Crosthwaite Church.—St. Kentigern.Part II.—The Reformation.—Dissenters.—Methodists.XI. Colloquy XI. Infidelity.—Church Establishment..XII. Colloquy XII. Blencathra.—Threlkeld Tarn.—The Cliffords.Part II.—Privileged Orders.—The American Governments.XIII. Colloquy XIII. The River Greta.—Trade.—Population.—Colonies.XIV. Colloquy XIV. The Library.XV. Colloquy XV. The Conclusion.Appendix Volume IISouthey's Notes and IllustrationsTable of Variants and Guide to PaginationEditorial NotesAppendix A: Reviews of Sir Thomas More.Appendix B: A note on ‘Montesinos’, Southey’s name in Sir Thomas More.Appendix C: Southey’s sources for Sir Thomas More (edited from the Sale Catalogue of his Library)Index
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ISBN
9781848935747
Publisert
2017-09-28
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Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
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453 gr
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234 mm
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156 mm
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UU, UP, 05
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Engelsk
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888

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Dr Tom Duggett is Associate Professor in English Literature at Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University, Suzhou, China.