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A quest for home : reading Robert Southey / Christopher J.P. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Christopher J. P., 1957-
- Series:
- Liverpool English texts and studies.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revolutionary literature, English--History and criticism.
- Revolutionary literature, English.
- English literature--French influences.
- English literature.
- Quests (Expeditions) in literature.
- Home in literature.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Literature and the revolution.
- France.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Foreign public opinion, British.
- Southey, Robert, 1774-1843--Criticism and interpretation.
- Southey, Robert.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- This study re-places the prolific and controversial writer Robert Southey (1774-1843) within the literary context of the 1790s and beyond, a context in which he played so central a role.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Robert Southey: The Quest for Home 1. Janus in a Claude-Glass: Southey's The Retrospect 2. Theorizing for Another State: The Fall of Robespierre and the American Scheme 3. Joan of Arc: The First Edition, 1796. True Patriots of the Hearth 4. Poems 1797. From Mediocrity to Progressive Genius 5. Breaking the Idyll: On a Landscape of Gaspar Poussin, Bath 1795 6. Hymn to the Penates 7. From the Sepulchre of Ages: Re-inscribing England 8. The Westbury Experience 9. Madoc: Southey's Reputation or a Melancholy Memento? Epilogue Bibliography Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780853235217
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