Quest for Home
Reading Robert Southey
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
256 pages
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© 1997
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
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
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
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
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