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Author | : Jonathan Gonzalez |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2021-07-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1351127403 |
In 1797 Robert Southey published a richly detailed account of his journey in Spain and Portugal between December 1795 and May 1796, from his arrival in Coruna in the northwest of the Spanish coast to the heart of Castile and into Madrid, before making his way to Lisbon. Structured as a series of letters written as he travelled across the Iberian Peninsula, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal engages with the tradition of English travelogues, while borrowing traits from other genres such as the journal, translation, literary criticism, history, and the picturesque guidebook. On his way, Southey comments on every aspect of Spanish and Portuguese society, from local food and wine, bizarre customs, literature and theatregoing, to Iberian politics and religion. In his letters Southey, who would grow to become one of the leading Hispanists in late Georgian England, contrasts the political, religious, cultural and social systems of Britain and two of the oldest nations in the European continent in a way that raises important questions about cultural contact and transmission during the Romantic period. This edition critically reassesses Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal by looking at Southey’s deeply ambiguous cultural cosmopolitanism and his life-long investment in all things Spanish and Portuguese.
Author | : Robert Southey |
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Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1797 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
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Author | : ROBERT. SOUTHEY |
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Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 9780367754891 |
Author | : Robert Southey |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2017-12-24 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780484627740 |
Excerpt from Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal In the following letters I have related what I have seen. Of the anecdotes with which they abound, there are none of which I myself doubt the authenticity. There are no disquisitions on commerce and politics I have given facts, and the Reader may comment for himself. The book is written with scrupulous veracity; I have never in the slightest instance enlivened the narrative by deviating from plain truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : ROBERT. SOUTHEY |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9781033623473 |
Author | : Robert Southey |
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Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1808 |
Genre | : Portugal |
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Author | : Robert Southey |
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Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1808 |
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Author | : Susan Valladares |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317050711 |
From Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Peninsular campaign. In the first in-depth study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment of the war within the larger political and ideological axes of Romantic performance. Exploring the role of spectacle in the mediation of war and the links between theatrical productions and print culture, she argues that the popularity of theatre-going and the improvisation and topicality unique to dramatic performance make the theatre an ideal lens for studying the construction of the Peninsular War in the public domain. Without simplifying the complex issues involved in the study of citizenship, communal identities, and ideological investments, Valladares recovers a wartime theatre that helped celebrate military engagements, reform political sympathies, and register the public’s complex relationship with Britain’s military campaign in the Iberian Peninsula. From its nuanced reading of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro (1799), to its accounts of wartime productions of Shakespeare, description of performances at the minor theatres, and detailed case study of dramatic culture in Bristol, Valladares’s book reveals how theatrical entertainments reflected and helped shape public feeling on the Peninsular campaign.
Author | : Carol Bolton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 731 |
Release | : 2016-06-03 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1317242904 |
In 1807 Robert Southey published a pseudonymous account of a journey made through England by a fictitious Spanish tourist, ‘Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella’. Letters from England (1807) relates Espriella’s travels. On his journey Espriella comments on every aspect of British society, from fashions and manners, to political and religious beliefs.
Author | : Tim Fulford |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 678 |
Release | : 2024-10-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1040248861 |
Central to any reappraisal of Southey’s mid to late career, is 'Roderick'. This best-selling epic romance has not been republished since 1838 and is contextualised here within Southey’s wider oeuvre. The four-volume edition also benefits from a general introduction, volume introductions, textual variants, endnotes and a consolidated index.