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- Publisher:
- Pickering & Chatto
- Online publication date:
- December 2014
- Online ISBN:
- 9781851965441
- Subjects:
- Literature, Literary Texts
Writing the Empire
Book description
Bolton examines a broad range of Robert Southey’s writing to explore the relationship between Romantic literature and colonial politics during the expansion of Britain’s second empire.After decades of neglect, Southey’s centrality to Romantic period culture is at last being recognized. Bolton’s study draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary materials to consider the impact of his work upon nineteenth-century views of empire. She situates Southey’s histories, biographies, journalism and epic poetry within their historical and geographical contexts to argue that his widely transmitted views on leadership, duty and global responsibility constituted a moral imperialism that formed Victorian values.
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"'an important book. Bolton’s readings are careful, thoroughly documented and illuminated by some detailed consideration of Southey’s correspondence and literary journalism. It will inspire and intensify further scholarly debate while the Southeyan recuperation goes on apace.'"
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