Robert Southey And the Contexts of English Romanticism

by Pratt,Lynda; Pratt,Lynda

• ISBN13: 9780754630463
• ISBN10: 0754630463
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A major and highly controversial personage in his own day, Robert Southey has until recently been the forgotten member of the Lake School. This is the first edited volume devoted to the multiple connections between Southey and English Romantic culture, politics, and history. Individual essays explore the significance of Southey's writing, his ability to complicate and reconfigure traditional versions of English Romanticism, and his importance for the construction of nineteenth-century ideologies of empire.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	vii
List of Contributors	ix
The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors' Preface	xii
Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction: Robert Southey and the Contexts of English Romanticism
Lynda Pratt	xvii
1 Southey's Literary History
David Fairer	1
2 Love and Madness: Southey Editing Chatterton
Nick Groom	19
3 Beneath High Romanticism: 'Southeian' Orientations in De Quincey
Daniel Sanjiv Roberts	37
4 Feasts and Fasts: Robert Southey and the Politics of Calendar
Paul Jarman	49
5 Poemets and Poemlings: Robert Southey's Minority Interest
Nicola Trott	69
6 'Bob Southey! — Poet Laureate': Public and Private in Southey's Poems of 1816
Mark Storey	87
7 Subservient Talents? Robert Southey as a Public Moralist
David M. Craig	101
8 'Green Savannahs' or 'savage lands': Wordsworth's and Southey's Romantic America
Carol Bolton	115
9 Southey's Madoc: Reimagining the Conquest of America
Nigel Leask	133
10 Conquest and Slavery in Robert Southey's Madoc and James Montgomery's The West Indies
Joselyn M. Almeida	151
11 Words and Things: Southey's East and the Materiality of Oriental Discourse
Diego Saglia	167
12 Plants, Pagodas and Penises: Southey's Oriental Imports
Tim Fulford	187
13 His nights among the dead were passed: Robert Southey's Dreams
W.A. Speck	203
14 Family Misfortunes? The posthumous editing of Robert Southey
Lynda Pratt	219
Bibilography	239
Index	259