Pantisocracy and Pennsylvania: Plans of Coleridge and Southey and of Cooper and Priestley

White, J. Edmund

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Title

Pantisocracy and Pennsylvania: Plans of Coleridge and Southey and of Cooper and Priestley

Author(s)

White, J. Edmund

Issue Date

2005-09-15

Keyword(s)

• History
• Chemistry
• Priestley

Abstract

Between 1793 and 1795, two of Joseph Priestley's sons and Thomas Cooper emigrated to the U.S. and embarked on a land development project, Joseph and his wife followed, and Robert Southey, Samuel Coleridge, and other young poets planned a utopian community destined for the Priestley lands. In 1947, Mary C. Park reported many of the details of these events and documented the lands optioned by the Cooper/Priestley developers, but some questions remain. Was Priestley the father really involved in his sons' project. Why did both schemes fail. These and related questions will be examd., as well as the possible relationships between Priestley and the development of Romanticism and utopian idealism. Did his writings contribute to the poets' conception of their "Pantisocratic" community. Were the poets following him to America, as some authors have suggested. Did he or the land promoters even know about the poets' plans.

Publisher

Division of the History of Chemistry

ISSN

1053-4385

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

article

Language

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127636

DOI

https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2005v030p070

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Copyright 2005 Division of the History of Chemistry

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