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Romance and Revolution - Shelley and the Politics of a Genre (Paperback, Revised)
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Romance and Revolution - Shelley and the Politics of a Genre (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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The revival of romance as a literary form and the imaginative
impact of the French Revolution are acknowledged influences on
English Romanticism, but their relationship has rarely been
addressed. In this innovative study of the transformations of a
genre, David Duff examines the paradox whereby the unstable
visionary world of romance came to provide an apt language for the
representation of revolution, and how the literary form was itself
politicised in the period. Drawing on an extensive range of textual
and visual sources, he traces the ambivalent ideological overtones
of the chivalric revival, the polemical appropriation of the
language of romance in the 'pamphlet war' of the 1790s, and the
emergence of a radical cult of chivalry among the Hunt-Shelley
circle in 1815-17. Central to the book is a detailed analysis of
Shelley's neglected revolutionary romances Queen Mab and Laon and
Cythna, flawed but fascinating poems in which the politics of
romance is most fully displayed.
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