Robert Southey and the Contexts of English Romanticism

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.

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;

Lynda Pratt is Reader in Romanticism and Director of the Centre for Regional Cultures in the School of English, University of Nottingham, UK.