This collection of essays focuses on Shelley's conception of the poet's social role and how that conception has changed over time. It examines the ways in which Shelley's thought engages contemporary debates on feminism, class structure, political representation and human rights, and how it in turn affects radical politics in England. Also considered are the cultural and political forces within Shelley's society and his attempts to establish a new role for the poet in its renovation.
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"An outstandingly fine collection of essays. One is impressed not just by the excellence of the individual contributions but by the uniformly high level of writing and thinking. The traditional, 'aesthetic' approach to Shelley is eschewed, with the emphasis very much on Shelley the political and social thinker."--Stuart M. Sperry, Indiana University
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TWO CENTURIES have passed since the leaders of the French Revolution experimented with their "rational reform" of social institutions and practices, ranging from the calendar to the church; a century and a half have gone by since the Reform Bills of 1832-33 heralded the more moderate changes in British society that led to the increasing influence of Utilitarian ideals throughout Europe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Shelley, South Africa, Claire Clairmont, The Mask of Anarchy, The Triumph of Life, French Revolution, Prometheus Unbound, Defence of Poetry, Mont Blanc, West Wind, Harriet Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Ebenezer Jones, English Jacobin, Queen Mab, Magna Graecia, Mary Hays, Soviet Union, Stuart Curran, The Witch of Atlas, Ernest Charles Jones, Men of England, Paul de Man, William Jones, English Romantic New!
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TWO CENTURIES have passed since the leaders of the French Revolution experimented with their "rational reform" of social institutions and practices, ranging from the calendar to the church; a century and a half have gone by since the Reform Bills of 1832-33 heralded the more moderate changes in British society that led to the increasing influence of Utilitarian ideals throughout Europe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Shelley, South Africa, Claire Clairmont, The Mask of Anarchy, The Triumph of Life, French Revolution, Prometheus Unbound, Defence of Poetry, Mont Blanc, West Wind, Harriet Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Ebenezer Jones, English Jacobin, Queen Mab, Magna Graecia, Mary Hays, Soviet Union, Stuart Curran, The Witch of Atlas, Ernest Charles Jones, Men of England, Paul de Man, William Jones, English Romantic New!
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- Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley on 12 pages
- A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Percy Bysshe Shelley on 11 pages
- Sensitive Plant by Percy Bysshe Shelley on page 109, page 203, and Back Matter
- Oliver Goldsmith Eman Poet Lib #30 (Everyman Poetry) by Olive Goldsmith on page 18, and Back Matter
- Letters from France by Helen M. Williams on page 77, and page 82
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- Shelley's Textual Seductions: Plotting Utopia in the Erotic and Political Works (Studies in Major Literary Authors) by Samuel Lyndon Gladden on 7 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Shelley (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Timothy Morton on 5 pages
- Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Cian Duffy in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Other Empire: British Romantic Writings about the Ottoman Empire (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Filiz Turhan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Timothy Morton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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