This is the first scholarly edition of one of the best-selling poets of the nineteenth century -- a poet influential on Keats, Shelley and Browning who was excluded from the canon by twentieth-century critics. It will be of interest to scholars of Romantic and Victorian poetry, labouring-class writing, and publishing history.
Experimentalism in Wordsworth's Later Poetry Tim Fulford provides detailed readings of a range of little-known, late and difficult poems which together present an alternative Wordsworth to the one we are used to. This newly-revealed Wordsworth continued experimenting with form, genre and style as his career progressed so as to ponder the challenging experiences presented by later life. Fulford invites the reader to engage, through Wordsworth's...
The Lives of Uneducated Poets, written by Robert Southey and published in 1831, contributes to the current interest in self-educated poetry and nineteenth-century history and culture. Accompanied by a new introduction written by Tim Fulford, this title will be of great interest to students and scholars of Literary History.
Romantic Indians considers the views that Britons, colonists, and North American Indians took of each other during a period in which these people were in a closer and more fateful relationship than ever before or since. It is, therefore, also a book about exploration, empire, and the forms of writing that exploration and empire gave rise to--in particular the form we have come to call Romanticism. Among the authors discussed are Wordsworth, He...
The Life of Nelson is one of Robert Southey¿s most influential and bestselling works. This new edition will contain a comprehensive critical apparatus that will make sense of the major issues posed by the text and how it contributes to studies of both Southey and Romanticism.
This is the first collected edition of the letters of Humphry Davy (1778-1829). It contains fully annotated transcriptions of Davy's correspondence (much previously unpublished) with many thinkers, writers, and scientists of his day, throwing new light on Davy, on the histories of science and literature, and on social history.
Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montfort University. He is author of many books, including The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets: Romanticism Revised and Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries: The Dialect of the Tribe. He is coeditor of Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1811-38 and the online publication The Collected Letters of Robert Southey.
Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry offers the most comprehensive reference resource for this area every published - one that is essential for both students and researchers in this field.
The relationships between literary discourse and colonial politics have been the subject of much critical investigation since the publication of Edward Said’, s orientalism. Yet although much has been written about the forms these relationships took in the early modern period and in the nineteenth century, the Romantic period has been comparatively neglected. This volume sets out to redress that imbalance by investigating Romantic writing...
The Regency Revisited reconfigures Romantic Studies through a neglected timeframe. It demonstrates how politics and culture of the Regency years transformed literature. By co-opting authors, the Regency provoked opposition, and brought new genres and modes of writing to the fore. Key figures are Robert Southey and Leigh Hunt: The Regency Revisited shows their pivotal roles in transforming Romanticism. Austen and Byron also feature as authors w...
