Robert Southey and the Contexts of English Romanticism

Lynda Pratt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317062103
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Lynda Pratt's collection of specially commissioned essays is the first edited volume devoted to the multiple connections between Robert Southey (1774-1843) and English Romantic culture. A major and highly controversial personage in his own day, Southey has until recently been the forgotten member of the Lake School.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors’ Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Robert Southey and the Contexts of English Romanticism
• 1 Southey’s Literary History
• 2 Love and Madness: Southey Editing Chatterton
• 3 Beneath High Romanticism: ‘Southeian’ Orientations in De Quincey
• 4 Feasts and Fasts: Robert Southey and the Politics of Calendar
• 5 Poemets and Poemlings: Robert Southey’s Minority Interest
• 6 ‘Bob Southey! – Poet Laureate’: Public and Private in Southey’s Poems of 1816
• 7 Subservient Talents? Robert Southey as a Public Moralist
• 8 ‘Green Savannahs’ or ‘savage lands’: Wordsworth’s and Southey’s Romantic America
• 9 Southey’s Madoc: Reimagining the Conquest of America
• 10 Conquest and Slavery in Robert Southey’s Madoc and James Montgomery’s The West Indies
• 11 Words and Things: Southey’s East and the Materiality of Oriental Discourse
• 12 Plants, Pagodas and Penises: Southey’s Oriental Imports
• 13 His nights among the dead were passed: Robert Southey’s Dreams
• 14 Family Misfortunes? The posthumous editing of Robert Southey
• Bibilography
• Index