Tell your friends about this item:
Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, by Robert Southey - The Pickering Masters Tim Fulford 1st edition
Our customers say:
Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, by Robert Southey - The Pickering Masters
Tim Fulford
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.
400 pages
| Media | Books Book |
| Released | September 28, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781848935747 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 888 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 453 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Duggett, Tom |
| Editor | Fulford, Tim |
More from the same publisher
See all of Tim Fulford ( e.g. Hardcover Book , Book and Paperback Book )