M. Garrett

The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Shelley (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive guide to the poems, prose, biography, ideas and contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley features entries on all the major poems and prose works (including inspiration, composition and publication), Shelley's politics, relationships and travels, his representation in novels, drama, film and portraits, and his critical reception.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137328519
• Artikelnr.: 39295055

Autorenporträt

Martin Garrett's doctoral research was on Renaissance drama and his work in this period includes Critical Heritage volumes on Massinger and Sidney. More recently he has worked mainly on Romantic and Victorian literature. He has also written literary and cultural guides to southern Europe, France and Cambridge. He is the author of volumes on Byron, Mary Shelley and the Brownings in the British Library Writers' Lives series. Martin Garrett has taught a wide range of undergraduate courses for the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London. His Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Byron won the Elma Dangerfield award of the International Byron Society in 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword Preface and acknowledgements Abbreviations Chronology Entries, A-Z Bibliography

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Series Editor's Foreword Preface and acknowledgements Abbreviations Chronology Entries, A-Z Bibliography

Rezensionen

"Dictionary of Shelley is an excellent, compact resource. ... book comprises alphabetically arranged entries, of varying length, on individual poems and works and on an array of key and marginal people, places, and events in Shelley's life. ... contain references to relevant scholarship and further reading, and are accompanied by an up-to-date and well-researched bibliography. ... Garrett's Dictionary succeeds in providing a convenient desk-reference that will be of service to Shelley scholars while remaining accessible to an advanced general audience." (A Year's Work in English Studies, 2015)

"...clearly and concisely written and well-presented... As well as being a good introductory guide to Shelley and an enjoyable read in general, the volume is an excellent source of scholarly information and will be a valuable reference work for studentsof English literature in the Romantic Period." Anna França, Reference Reviews