Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1848935749 ISBN 13 : 9781848935747

Editeur : Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848935749
• ISBN 13: 9781848935747
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 888
• Éditeur: Duggett Tom, Fulford Tim
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