Imprisoned Traveler

Keith Crook taught for many years at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, where he is now an Honorary Fellow, specializing in eighteenth-century literature. His main publications are on Samuel Johnson and Swift. He published the standard scholarly edition of Joseph Forsyth's Italy in 2001.

"The Imprisoned Traveler, which includes a series of letters he was able to send from captivity to his brother in Scotland, offers an expertly detailed tribute to the man and his work in the wider aesthetic and political contexts of Romantic Europe."— Times Literary Supplement"Forsyth did not get to see the second edition of his work, which saw the light thanks to his brother, for he died soon after his liberation in 1815. Crook has assumed the privileged role of updating the twenty-first-century scholarly appreciation of Forsyth's seminal account of Napoleonic Italy, and Crook's book is a must on any shelf of specialised Romantic travel writing on Italy."— The BARS Review"[There is] value and significance of Forsyth's travel account, and Keith Crook has provided us with an excellent vademecum to its intricacies and, in the process, a powerful reminder of its cultural significance."— Romantic Circles

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceList of Abbreviations  Chapter 1             The historical moment of Forsyth's Italy                                       Chapter 2             Forsyth's Prisons                                                                           Chapter 3             The 1813 and the 1816 Versions of Forsyth's Italy                       Chapter 4             Talking to Italians                                                                           Chapter 5             The Hidden Thoughts of Joseph Forsyth                                       Chapter 6             Visual arts, architecture, and literature                                            ——————The Letters of the Forsyth Brothers                                                                            ——————Appendix 1          Works of Art Forsyth SawAppendix 2          A Sequence for the Passages Omitted from the First Edition of Forsyth's Italy    Acknowledgments                                                                                                      Bibliography                                                                                                               Index