In his lifetime Robert Southey was very much the equal of his fellow ?Lake poets,” Coleridge and Wordsworth, but since his death his reputation has been overshadowed by their success. In this new biography W. A. Speck argues that if Southey's poetry is no longer considered as significant, his other writings were more salient and his political views far more influential than those of his fellow poets. He was, as Byron conceded, England's ?only existing entire man of letters.” The book engages with Southey's voluminous publications, weaving discussion of them into the narrative of his life. Speck also explores Southey's entire correspondence, not only that which appeared in the editions edited by his descendants, and finds a man of considerably greater emotional complexity than previously assumed. The first fully rounded chronicle of Southey's life in sixty years, Speck's account sets Southey in historical context and restores him to the map of English literature.

Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters

W. A. Speck

History

Yale University Press

Tory & Whig: the struggle in the constituencies, 1701-1715

Macmillan

In this social history of gender roles, the author examines continuity and change in the respective spheres of men and women, in family life and in public activity before and during the Industrial Revolution. He re-examines the view that women had greater economic and political oppurtunities in pre-industrial England. He argues that while important changes took place in this period in the kinds of activites undertaken by the two sexes, we must redefine our understanding of the concept of separate spheres if it is to provide a meaningful characterization of the changing pattern of gender differences in the period.

Gender in English Society, 1650-1850: The Emergence of Separate Spheres? (Themes in British Social History Series)

Self-Help

Longman Pub. Group

British America, 1607-1763 (BAAS pamphlets in American studies)

British Association for American Studies

Keele University Press

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