Timothy Webb

The Unfamiliar Shelley (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Weinberg, Alan M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An outstanding group of international Shelley scholars takes full advantage of new editions and the evidence of notebooks, paying particular attention to texts that have been neglected or underestimated. Revaluations of the verse letter, plays, satire, pamphlets, prose essays, political verse, romance, prefaces, translations, art representations, fragments and early writings show how Victorian taste and culture harmed Shelley's reputation. The collection is sure to inspire future reappraisals of Shelley's work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351880794
• Artikelnr.: 49355274

Autorenporträt

Alan M. Weinberg is Professor of English Studies at the University of South Africa, RSA. Timothy Webb is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK where, until recently, he was Winterstoke Professor.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Timothy Webb and Alan M. Weinberg. Poetry: Reading as flight: fragment poems from Shelley's notebooks
Michael Bradshaw; 'The casket of my unknown mind': the 1813 volume of minor poems
David Duff; Happily ever after? The necessity of fairytale in Queen Mab
Christopher R. Miller; Laon and the hermit: connection and succession
Jack Donovan; 'Peter Bell the Third'
contempt and poetic transfiguration
Stephen C. Behrendt; Scratching at the door of absence: writing and reading 'Letter to Maria Gisborne'
Timothy Webb; Shelley's Neapolitan-Tuscan poetics: 'Sonnet: Political Greatness' and the 'Republic' of Benevento
Michael Rossington. Art: Shelleyan inspiration and the sister arts
Nancy Moore Goslee. Prose: Noises on: the communicative strategies of Shelley's Prefaces
Hugh Roberts; Contemplating facts
studying ourselves: aspects of Shelley's philosophical and religious prose
Merle A. Williams; A place to stand: questions of address in Shelley's political pamphlets
Martin Priestman; Emulating Plato: Shelley as translator and prose poet
Michael O'Neill; 'These catchers of men': imposture and its unmasking in 'A Philosophical View of Reform'
Alan M. Weinberg. Drama: Porcine poetics: Shelley's Swellfoot the Tyrant
Timothy Morton; Shelley's late fragmentary plays: 'Charles the First' and the 'Unfinished Drama'
Nora Crook; Afterword: Tracking Shelley
Donald H. Reiman; Bibliography; Index.