The subject of Gelpi's new book is the importance of the
mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelly's poetry and
life. However, her book also uses Shelley as a touchstone by which
to examine the rich historical and theoretical issues relevant to
motherhood in the Romantic period. Gelpi offers a detailed account
of the historical rise in attention paid to mothering, the changing
cultural attitudes towards the role of the mother, and the
resulting effect on the nature of family life. She further
discusses the psychoanalytic, Marxist, and developmental approaches
to the mother/infant relationship, particularly to the connection
each makes between that relationship and the acquisition of
language. By combining psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and
feminist theory with extensive biographical material on Shelley and
information on the position of mothers in England after 1790, Gelpi
offers an important reassessment of Shelley's avowed feminism and
the failure of his utopian vision.
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