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Shelley's Satire - Violence, Exhortation, and Authority (Hardcover, New)
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Shelley's Satire - Violence, Exhortation, and Authority (Hardcover, New)
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Jones challenges traditional images of Percy Bysshe Shelley in this
first book-length analysis of his major satiric works. Bringing to
bear genre theory and a New Historical frame of reference, Jones
places Shelley's satires in their broad context of popular,
political, and material culture. Jones argues that Shelley's
satiric poems express an important countervoice within Shelley's
work as well as within Romanticism as a whole. These ironic,
public, referential, and worldly texts are shown to be deeply
ambivalent, employing the imagery of curse, revenge, and punishment
in a coercive rhetoric of violence only occasionally covered with
laughter. Thus the satires vividly represent the darker side of the
Romantic poet's relation to society as well as his efforts to
engage and to change the world. Shelley's Satire illuminates the
historical and cultural contexts that stirred the poet's
imagination - contemporary superstition, the popular entertainments
of the pantomime and graphic prints, and historical events such as
the Peterloo Massacre and the Queen Caroline affair. It will engage
not only Shelleyans and Romanticists but also anyone interested in
satire as a genre, New Historicist methods, theories of cultural
formation, and the Regency period in English history.
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