Reviews
'Morton provides one of the most challenging readings of 'Alastor' available. His versatile readings of this and other texts from the fragment 'On Game Laws' (1817) to 'Swellfoot the Tyrant' are nearly always compelling and provocative.'Keats Shelley Review'Morton takes us beyond Shelley (or the Shelleys) and toward the broader cultural and intellectual sphere of Romanticism generally, where we may usefully apply to other authors, other works, the lessons that Morton teaches so compellingly in his fine study.'The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 'Timothy Morton … is the first critic to take Shelley's vegetarianism seriously … The results prove to be revolutionary in themselves … his readings are … attuned to the complexities of Shelleyan figurality … this is a book of very real importance.'Shelley Journal, 'Wide-ranging both in its historical research and its ingenious applications of theory, this book ... will be savoured by those who have an interest in the literary figuration of diet and consumption in all periods as well as the Romantic.'Notes and Queries, 'Timothy Morton ¿ is the first critic to take Shelley¿s vegetarianism seriously ¿ The results prove to be revolutionary in themselves ¿ his readings are ¿ attuned to the complexities of Shelleyan figurality ¿ this is a book of very real importance.¿ Shelley Journal, '… a subtle, thought-provoking and ambitious analysis of the opposed ways of the lives of the rich and the poor, the hungry and the surfeited, as exposed in Shelley's thinking. Nobody interested either in Shelley's poetics or the body's politics will be able to ignore.'Times Higher Education Supplement, "...offers a superb synthesis of Romantic (and contemporary) literary, political, scientific, and cultural analysis, in which Shelley's vegetarianism, 'the redemptive discourse of natural diet' (p.85), is made brilliantly to play through and illuminate a host of poetic and political concerns." SEL 1500-1900, 'Wide-ranging both in its historical research and its ingenious applications of theory, this book ... will be savoured by those who have an interest in the literary figuration of diet and consumption in all periods as well as the Romantic.' Notes and Queries, 'Timothy Morton ... is the first critic to take Shelley's vegetarianism seriously ... The results prove to be revolutionary in themselves ... his readings are ... attuned to the complexities of Shelleyan figurality ... this is a book of very real importance.'Shelley Journal, "His study is informed by an astonishing diversity of scholarship and theory, yet throughout the approach is consistent and consistently innovative, offering new perspectives on the ecology of the body." The Wordsworth Circle, 'The book is a kind of belated yet updated 'Renaissance self-fashioning¿ for Romantic studies. This is an exciting and genuinely original book which offers much to Shelley studies and to the wider current debate about the 'greening¿ of Romanticism.¿ Keats Shelley Review, '¿ a subtle, thought-provoking and ambitious analysis of the opposed ways of the lives of the rich and the poor, the hungry and the surfeited, as exposed in Shelley¿s thinking. Nobody interested either in Shelley¿s poetics or the body¿s politics will be able to ignore.¿ Times Higher Education Supplement, "...will be savoured by those who have an interest in literary figuration of diet and consumption in all periods as well as the Romantic." Notes and Queries, 'Wide-ranging both in its historical research and its ingenious applications of theory, this book … will be savoured by those who have an interest in the literary figuration of diet and consumption in all periods as well as the Romantic.' Notes and Queries, '… a subtle, thought-provoking and ambitious analysis of the opposed ways of the lives of the rich and the poor, the hungry and the surfeited, as exposed in Shelley's thinking. Nobody interested either in Shelley's poetics or the body's politics will be able to ignore.' Times Higher Education Supplement, '... a subtle, thought-provoking and ambitious analysis of the opposed ways of the lives of the rich and the poor, the hungry and the surfeited, as exposed in Shelley's thinking. Nobody interested either in Shelley's poetics or the body's politics will be able to ignore.'Times Higher Education Supplement, 'Timothy Morton … is the first critic to take Shelley's vegetarianism seriously … The results prove to be revolutionary in themselves … his readings are … attuned to the complexities of Shelleyan figurality … this is a book of very real importance.' Shelley Journal, "...the book has some remarkable strengths that will make it a useful text for scholars interested in Percy Shelly, Romantic-period culture, the extension of New Ethical compassion as a disciplinary tool, and the potential applications of cultural materialism and green criticism." Nineteenth Century Prose, 'Morton provides one of the most challenging readings of 'Alastor' available. His versatile readings of this and other texts from the fragment 'On Game Laws' (1817) to 'Swellfoot the Tyrant' are nearly always compelling and provocative.' Keats Shelley Review 'Morton takes us beyond Shelley (or the Shelleys) and toward the broader cultural and intellectual sphere of Romanticism generally, where we may usefully apply to other authors, other works, the lessons that Morton teaches so compellingly in his fine study.' The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, '... a subtle, thought provoking and ambitious analysiss of the opposed ways of the lives of the rich and the poor, the hungry and the surfeited, as exposed in Shelley's thinking. Nobody interested either in Shelley's poetics or the body's politics will be able to ignore.' Times Higher Education Supplement, 'The book is a kind of belated yet updated 'Renaissance self-fashioning' for Romantic studies. This is an exciting and genuinely original book which offers much to Shelley studies and to the wider current debate about the 'greening' of Romanticism.' Keats Shelley Review
