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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherLiverpool University Press
ISBN-100746308183
ISBN-139780746308189
eBay Product ID (ePID)1854430
Product Key Features
Number of Pages120 Pages
Publication NamePercy Bysshe Shelley
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPoetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Poetry
AuthorPaul Hamilton
SeriesWriters and Their Work Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight4.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal821.7
SynopsisThis book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley's thought and major writings., This book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley's thought and major writings. As an introduction, it stresses his seriousness and sophistication, his poetic brilliance and intellectual courage. More specifically, its readings emphasise the materialistic and corporeal orientation of his work in opposition to a traditional view of him as a Romantic solipsist, a characterisation some of his own statements seem to invite. Fundamentally Shelley is understood here as a vanguard, revolutionary figure who writes for a better democratic future, but one which, paradoxically, he fears may threaten the cultural privilege it took to imagine it. But this pessimism is always the other side of an openness to new associations which continually reform both private and political life, relationship and citizenship.