The Sonnets of Thomas Pringle
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-53379-0 (ISBN)
When the Scottish poet Thomas Pringle emigrated to the Cape Colony in 1820 he voyaged also into a new creative life and an art responsive to his colonial home, “sterner verse” for “darker scenes”. Accompanying him to the Cape, the sonnet became his most consistent choice for capturing his experiences and convictions, his personal crises and the greater trauma of colonial appropriation and racial oppression. In this study his unique contribution to the Romantic-era sonnet is for the first time given its full due, through readings that are as attentive to form and formal agency as to the cultural, social and historical conditions in which they are enmeshed. Moving beyond colonial theory to consider issues of literary migration, this illuminating work shows how Pringle effectively opened up a radical conversation between the habitual modes of perception and response of British Romanticism and his new, southern world.
Patrick Lenahan is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Pretoria. He is a co-editor of Voices of this Land: An Anthology of South African Poetry in English.
Preface
List of Illustrations
Chronology of Thomas Pringle’s Life and Works
Introduction
The Cabin and the Sonnet
1 Edinburgh Sonnets
In the Walks of British Literature
2 Sonnets of Passage
Darker Scenes, Sterner Verse
3 Cape Sonnets: In Genadendal
Short Solace in Narrow Rooms
4 Cape Sonnets: On the Frontier
Friendship’s Golden Chain
5 London Sonnets
The Sympathy of Strangers
Conclusion
A Romanticism of the South
Appendix 1: The Complete Sonnets of Thomas Pringle
Appendix 2: Pringle’s Sonnet Types
Appendix 3: Pringle’s “Selection of Sonnets, Songs & Other Poems – Chiefly from the Works of Living Authors” (1814)
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ; 33 |
| Zusatzinfo | 7 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 686 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-53379-6 / 9004533796 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-53379-0 / 9789004533790 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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