Colonialism
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Primary Sources
Resnal, Guillame. A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. Trans. J. Justamond. 4 vols. Dublin: John Exshaw, 1776. Resnal's study provides a comprehensive history of European colonial enterprise, including extensive analysis of the Americas and philosophical discussions of climate and environmental influences upon various peoples.
Robinson, John Beverley and Jonathan Sewell. Plan for a General Legislative Union of the British Provinces in North America. London: W. Clowes, 1822. Facsimile edition reproduced in Four Early Pamphlets on the Confederation of the Canadas. Toronto: Canadiana House, 1967: 1 - 43. In this pamphlet Robinson (an admirer of Thomas Campbell) and Sewell propose a legislative union of Canada's five existing provincial legislatures under the political name "New Albion." There is no mention made of First Nations peoples of their role in this proposed union.
Robinson, John Beverley. "A Letter to the Right Hon. Earl Bathurst, K.G., on the Policy of Uniting the British North American Colonies." Four Early Pamphlets on the Confederation of the Canadas. 1825. Toronto: Canadiana House, 1967. 1 - 63. In this letter, dated December 26 1824, Robinson (1791 - 1863) advocates confederation of the existing Canadian provinces and praises their recent and coming improvements as a result of agriculture and trade.
Southey, Robert. Madoc, a Poem, in Two Parts. Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805. This epic poem is a speculative revisionist history of the "first" European colonization of America (ostensibly carried out by the Welsh).
Secondary Sources
Cheshire, Paul. "The Hermetic Geography of William Gilbert." Romanticism 9.1 (2003): 82 - 93. This essay examines Gilbert's treatment of imperialism, colonization, and spirituality in "The Hurricane," ultimately suggesting that Coleridge's "Rime" is influenced by Gilbert's poem.
Curry, Kenneth and Robert Dedmon. "Southey's Contributions to the Quarterly Review." Wordsworth Circle (1974): 261 - 272. This piece discusses, and offers a full list of, Southey's contributions to the QR from 1809 to 1839. Since the QR published reviews anonymously, authorship of some of Southey's contributions is subject to dispute. Southey's contributions include reviews of Lewis and Clark; Henry Koster's Travels in Brazil; James Burney's travel account of the Tonga Islands; Thomas Southey's Chronological History of the West Indies; and George Head's Forest Scenes and Incidents in the Wilds North America.
Fulford, Tim and Peter J. Kitson. Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780 - 1830. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. Fulford and Kitson offer a groundbreaking collection of essays on the relationship between Romanticism and colonialism.
Kaufman, Paul. "'The Hurricane' and the Romantics." English Miscellany: A Symposium of History, Literature, and the Arts 21 (1970): 99 - 115. Kaufman's article outlines the influence William Gilbert's poem "The Hurricane" had on poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey (99 - 103); and he considers the poem in relation to its theosophical contexts.
Pratt, Lynda. "The Pantisocratic Origins of Robert Southey's Madoc: An Unpublished Letter." Notes and Queries 244.1 (1999): 34 - 39. Pratt discusses a letter Southey sent to Horace Walpole Bedford on 1796. The letter focuses on Southey's poem Madoc and Southey's intention to draw a connection between Prince Madoc and Manco Capac, "founder" of Incan Peru. Southey saw the Incan civilization as the ultimate pantisocratic state. Southey's letter is transcribed in the article.
Roe, Nicholas. "Robert Southey and the Origins of Pantisocracy." The Politics of Nature: Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries. London: Macmillan, 1992. 36 - 55. Roe provides a synopsis of Southey's changing political ideologies, examining his positions on Republicanism and Pantisocracy. He also examines Southey's 1793 letters on visionary "propspects" (47), and considers the influence Coleridge and Godwin had on Southey's life.