Sir Thomas More V1
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.Book details
- Series:
- The Pickering Masters
- Author:
- Tom Duggett, Tim Fulford
- ISBN:
- 9781351595155
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781315103464, 9781138081024, 9781138081024, 9781315103464, 9781138081024
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Pages:
- 588
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2020-03-22
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Copyright by:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Language Arts, Literature and Fiction