1st Edition

Sir Thomas More V1

Edited By Tom Duggett, Tim Fulford Copyright 2018
588 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

-Origins, Composition, Plates (collaboration with Westall), Sales, Reception, Second Edition, Projected 'New Colloquies' (1831-2) with John Rickman

-Contexts, Guidebooks and Views, Catholic Emancipation and Reform, Southey's Romantic Historicism, Victorian Legacies

-Bibliographical features and apparatus, Extant Manuscripts

Reading Text

Facsimiles of Frontispiece and Title Page, Epigraphs, 'Dedication' and Preface

Colloquy I - Introduction

Colloquy II - The Improvement of the World

Colloquy III - The Druidical Stones - Visitations of Pestilence

Colloquy IV - Feudal Slavery - Growth of Pauperism

Colloquy V - Decay of the Feudal System - Edward VI - Alfred

Colloquy VI - Walla Crag - Owen of Lanark

Colloquy VII - The Manufacturing System

Colloquy VIII - Steam - War - Prospects of Europe

Colloquy IX - Derwentwater - Catholic Emancipation - Ireland

Colloquy X - Crosthwaite Church - St Kentigern - Part II - The Reformation - Dissenters - Methodists

Colloquy XI - Infidelity - Church Establishment

Colloquy XII - Blencathra - Threlkeld Tarn - The Cliffords - Part II - Privileged Orders ・ The American Governments

Colloquy XIII - The River Greta - Trade - Population - Colonies

Colloquy XIV - The Library

Colloquy XV - The Conclusion

Appendix

Notes and Illustrations

Editorial Notes

Editorial Appendices

-Appendix A ・ Reviews in Edinburgh Review; Monthly Review; Fraser's Magazine; selective critical heritage 1829

present

-Appendix B - Selective manuscript transcriptions and selective facsimiles (inc. Westall plates for 1829 and 1831/2 'lost' 2nd series)

-Appendix C - List of Southey's Sources

-Appendix D - Index to Topics  

Biography

Tom Duggett, Tim Fulford