Description
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
General Editors’ Preface, Vincent Newey, Joanne Shattock; Introduction, Lynda Pratt; Chapter 1 Southey’s Literary History, David Fairer; Chapter 2 Love and Madness: Southey Editing Chatterton, Nick Groom; Chapter 3 Beneath High Romanticism: ‘Southeian’ Orientations in De Quincey, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts; Chapter 4 Feasts and Fasts: Robert Southey and the Politics of Calendar, Paul Jarman; Chapter 5 Poemets and Poemlings: Robert Southey’s Minority Interest, Nicola Trott; Chapter 6 ‘Bob Southey! – Poet Laureate’: Public and Private in Southey’s Poems of 1816, Mark Storey; Chapter 7 Subservient Talents? Robert Southey as a Public Moralist, David M. Craig; Chapter 8 ‘Green Savannahs’ or ‘savage lands’: Wordsworth’s and Southey’s Romantic America, Carol Bolton; Chapter 9 Southey’s Madoc: Reimagining the Conquest of America, Nigel Leask; Chapter 10 Conquest and Slavery in Robert Southey’s Madoc and James Montgomery’s The West Indies, Joselyn M. Almeida; Chapter 11 Words and Things: Southey’s East and the Materiality of Oriental Discourse, Diego Saglia; Chapter 12 Plants, Pagodas and Penises: Southey’s Oriental Imports, Tim Fulford; Chapter 13 His nights among the dead were passed: Robert Southey’s Dreams, W. A. Speck; Chapter 14 Family Misfortunes? The posthumous editing of Robert Southey, Lynda Pratt;
