Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, by Robert Southey

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888 Seiten

2017
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
978-1-84893-574-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Volume I

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Preface

Robert Southey: a Selective Chronology 1808–1843

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Progress and Prospects: Sir Thomas More and Romantic History

The Social Context: Southey and Robert Owen

Origins and Composition

Publication and Reception

This Edition

Note on the text and editorial procedures

SIR THOMAS MORE: OR, COLLOQUIES ON THE PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF SOCIETY. (1829)

Volume I

Dedication

Preface

I. 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 II

X. 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 II

Southey's Notes and Illustrations

Table of Variants and Guide to Pagination

Editorial Notes

Appendix 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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.9.2017
Reihe/Serie	The Pickering Masters
Zusatzinfo	7 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-84893-574-9 / 1848935749
ISBN-13	978-1-84893-574-7 / 9781848935747
Zustand	Neuware