Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, by Robert Southey Mixed media product
Edited by Tom Duggett, Tim Fulford
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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.
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- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:888 pages, 7 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:28/09/2017
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- ISBN:9781848935747
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Out of stock
- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:888 pages, 7 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:28/09/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781848935747
