TY  - BOOK
AU  - Southey,Robert
AU  - Gonzalez,Jonathan
AU  - Flores,Cristina
TI  - Letters written during a short residence in Spain and Portugal
SN  - 1351127411
U1  - 826.7 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Southey, Robert,
KW  - Spanish poetry
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Portuguese poetry
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - Spain
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Portugal
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351127424
ER  -