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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic
poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the
finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the third
volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all
of Shelley's poems in chronological order and with full annotation.
Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem
and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an
authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and
footnotes furnish the personal, literary, historical and scientific
information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley's varied
and allusive verse. Most of the poems in the present volume were
composed between autumn 1819 and autumn 1820. The poems written in
response to the political crisis in England following the
`Peterloo' massacre in August 1819 feature largely, among them The
Mask of Anarchy and 'An Ode (Arise, arise, arise!)'. The popular
songs, which Shelley intended to gather into a volume to inspire
reformers from the labouring classes, several accompanied by
significantly new textual material recovered from draft
manuscripts, are included, as are the important political works
'Ode to Liberty', 'Ode to Naples' and Oedipus Tyrannus, Shelley's
burlesque Greek tragedy on the Queen Caroline affair. Other major
poems featured include 'The Sensitive-Plant', 'Ode to the West
Wind', 'Letter to Maria Gisborne', an exuberant translation from
the ancient Greek of the Homeric 'Hymn to Mercury', and the
brilliantly inventive 'The Witch of Atlas'. In addition to
accompanying commentaries, there are extensive bibliographies, a
chronology of Shelley's life, and indexes to titles and first
lines. Leigh Hunt's informative Preface of 1832 to The Mask of
Anarchy is also included as an Appendix. The volumes of The Poems
of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of Shelley's poetry
available to students and scholars.
How did romanticism define its relationship with its sources? How
has romanticism since been understood and misunderstood across a
range of cultural activities? These are among the questions taken
up in this reexamination of the place of adaptation within
romanticism. Renegotiating the cultural topography of the period
and the place of romanticism in subsequent cultural history, the
volume focuses on the adaptation of source material by romantic
writers and the adaptation in subsequent periods of the tropes and
ideologies associated with romanticism. In place of a hierarchical
distinction between source and text, between 'romanticism' and its
contexts, the collection identifies distinct but overlapping and
mutually constitutive genres such as the Gothic and romance.
Whether their essays deal with early nineteenth-century periodical
reviews, affordable editions of Pride and Prejudice aimed at the
late nineteenth-century mass audience, or the ongoing cultural
presence of romanticism in late twentieth- and early
twenty-first-century debates about embryology and stem cell
research, the contributors remain cognizant of the tension between
the processes of adaptation and the apparent ideology of romantic
originality.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic
Poets and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest
lyric poetry in the English Language. In this volume, the editors
have selected the most popular, significant and frequently taught
poems from the 6-volume Longman Annotated edition of Shelley's
poems. Each poem is fully annotated, explained and contextualised,
along with a comprehensive list of abbreviations, an inclusive
bibliography of material relating to the text and interpretation of
Shelley's poetry, plus an extensive chronology of Shelley's life
and works. Headnotes and footnotes furnish the personal, literary,
historical and scientific information necessary for an informed
reading of Shelley's richly varied and densely allusive verse,
making this an ideal anthology for students, classroom use, and
anyone approaching Shelley's poetry for the first time; however the
level and extent of commentary and annotation will also be of great
value for researchers and critics.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic
poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the
finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the third
volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all
of Shelley's poems in chronological order and with full annotation.
Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem
and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an
authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and
footnotes furnish the personal, literary, historical and scientific
information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley's varied
and allusive verse. Most of the poems in the present volume were
composed between autumn 1819 and autumn 1820. The poems written in
response to the political crisis in England following the
'Peterloo' massacre in August 1819 feature largely, among them The
Mask of Anarchy and 'An Ode (Arise, arise, arise!)'. The popular
songs, which Shelley intended to gather into a volume to inspire
reformers from the labouring classes, several accompanied by
significantly new textual material recovered from draft
manuscripts, are included, as are the important political works
'Ode to Liberty', 'Ode to Naples' and Oedipus Tyrannus, Shelley's
burlesque Greek tragedy on the Queen Caroline affair. Other major
poems featured include 'The Sensitive-Plant', 'Ode to the West
Wind', 'Letter to Maria Gisborne', an exuberant translation from
the ancient Greek of the Homeric 'Hymn to Mercury', and the
brilliantly inventive 'The Witch of Atlas'. In addition to
accompanying commentaries, there are extensive bibliographies, a
chronology of Shelley's life, and indexes to titles and first
lines. Leigh Hunt's informative Preface of 1832 to The Mask of
Anarchy is also included as an Appendix. The volumes of The Poems
of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of Shelley's poetry
available to students and scholars.
Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation is an
edited collection exploring the varied and complex interactions
between national romanticisms in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Norway
and Sweden. The collection considers both the reception and
influence of Nordic romanticism in Britain and Germany and also the
reciprocal impact of British and German romanticism in the Nordic
countries. Taken as a whole, the volume suggests that to fully
understand the range of these individual national romanticisms we
need to see them not as isolated phenomena but rather as
participating, via translation and other modes of reception, in a
transnational or regional romanticism configured around the idea of
a shared cultural inheritance in ‘the North’.
This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and
cultural significance of the engagement with 'infancy' during the
Romantic period. Taking its point of departure in the commonplace
claim that the Romantics invented childhood, the book traces that
engagement across national boundaries, in the visual arts, in works
of educational theory and natural philosophy, and in both fiction
and non-fiction written for children. Essays authored by scholars
from a range of national and disciplinary backgrounds reveal how
Romantic-period representations of and for children constitute
sites of complex discursive interaction, where ostensibly unrelated
areas of enquiry are brought together through common tropes and
topoi associated with infancy. Broadly new-historicist in approach,
but drawing also on influential theoretical descriptions of genre,
discipline, mediation, cultural exchange, and comparative
methodologies, the collection also seeks to rethink the idea of a
clear-cut dichotomy between Enlightenment and Romantic conceptions
of infancy.
This book explores various forms of cultural influence and exchange
between Britain and the Nordic countries in the late eighteenth
century and romantic period. Broadly new-historicist in approach,
but drawing also on influential descriptions of genre, discipline,
mediation, cultural exchange, and comparative methodologies, these
essays not only constitute a substantial and innovative
contribution to scholarly understanding of the development of
romanticisms and romantic nationalisms in Britain and the Nordic
countries, but also describe a pattern of cultural encounter which
was predicated upon exchange and a sense of commonality rather than
upon the perception of difference or alterity which has so often
been discerned by critical descriptions of British romantic-period
engagements with non-British cultures. The volume ought to appeal
to a broad and genuinely international academic audience with
interests in eighteenth-century and romantic-period culture in
Britain and Scandinavia as well as to undergraduates taking courses
in eighteenth-century, romantic, and Scandinavian studies.
This book explores various forms of cultural influence and exchange
between Britain and the Nordic countries in the late eighteenth
century and romantic period. Broadly new-historicist in approach,
but drawing also on influential descriptions of genre, discipline,
mediation, cultural exchange, and comparative methodologies, these
essays not only constitute a substantial and innovative
contribution to scholarly understanding of the development of
romanticisms and romantic nationalisms in Britain and the Nordic
countries, but also describe a pattern of cultural encounter which
was predicated upon exchange and a sense of commonality rather than
upon the perception of difference or alterity which has so often
been discerned by critical descriptions of British romantic-period
engagements with non-British cultures. The volume ought to appeal
to a broad and genuinely international academic audience with
interests in eighteenth-century and romantic-period culture in
Britain and Scandinavia as well as to undergraduates taking courses
in eighteenth-century, romantic, and Scandinavian studies.
A major new study of Percy Shelley's intellectual life and poetic
career, Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime identifies Shelley's
fascination with sublime natural phenomena as a key element in his
understanding of the way ideas like 'nature' and 'imagination'
informed the social and political structures of the Romantic
period. Offering a genuinely fresh set of perspectives on Shelley's
texts and contexts, Cian Duffy argues that Shelley's engagement
with the British and French discourse on the sublime had a profound
influence on his writing about political change in that age of
revolutionary crisis. Examining Shelley's extensive use of sublime
imagery and metaphor, Duffy offers not only a substantial
reassessment of Shelley's work but also a significant re-appraisal
of the role of the sublime in the cultural history of Britain
during the Romantic period.
A major new study of Percy Shelley's intellectual life and poetic
career, Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime identifies Shelley's
fascination with sublime natural phenomena as a key element in his
understanding of the way ideas like 'nature' and 'imagination'
informed the social and political structures of the Romantic
period. Offering a genuinely fresh set of perspectives on Shelley's
texts and contexts, Cian Duffy argues that Shelley's engagement
with the British and French discourse on the sublime had a profound
influence on his writing about political change in that age of
revolutionary crisis. Examining Shelley's extensive use of sublime
imagery and metaphor, Duffy offers not only a substantial
reassessment of Shelley's work but also a significant re-appraisal
of the role of the sublime in the cultural history of Britain
during the Romantic period.
This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and
cultural significance of the engagement with 'infancy' during the
Romantic period. Taking its point of departure in the commonplace
claim that the Romantics invented childhood, the book traces that
engagement across national boundaries, in the visual arts, in works
of educational theory and natural philosophy, and in both fiction
and non-fiction written for children. Essays authored by scholars
from a range of national and disciplinary backgrounds reveal how
Romantic-period representations of and for children constitute
sites of complex discursive interaction, where ostensibly unrelated
areas of enquiry are brought together through common tropes and
topoi associated with infancy. Broadly new-historicist in approach,
but drawing also on influential theoretical descriptions of genre,
discipline, mediation, cultural exchange, and comparative
methodologies, the collection also seeks to rethink the idea of a
clear-cut dichotomy between Enlightenment and Romantic conceptions
of infancy.
Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation is an
edited collection exploring the varied and complex interactions
between national romanticisms in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Norway
and Sweden. The collection considers both the reception and
influence of Nordic romanticism in Britain and Germany and also the
reciprocal impact of British and German romanticism in the Nordic
countries. Taken as a whole, the volume suggests that to fully
understand the range of these individual national romanticisms we
need to see them not as isolated phenomena but rather as
participating, via translation and other modes of reception, in a
transnational or regional romanticism configured around the idea of
a shared cultural inheritance in 'the North'.
British Romanticism and Denmark shows how the articulation in
British Romantic-period writing of the idea of a 'Northern'
cultural identity shared by Britain and Denmark and rooted in the
classical Scandinavian past played an important role in the
emergence and development of Romanticism and Romantic nationalism
in both countries. By addressing a wide range of Nordic as well as
Anglophone scholarship, this study offers new perspectives on
British, Danish and European Romanticisms, and on the relationship
between them.
A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, edited by
Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy. 'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' Percy Bysshe Shelley was
one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded
among the finest lyric poets in the English language. His major
works include the long visionary poems 'Prometheus Unbound' and
'Adonais', an elegy on the death of John Keats. His shorter,
classic verses include 'To a Skylark', 'Mont Blanc' and 'Ode to the
West Wind'. This important new edition collects his best poetry and
prose, revealing how his writings weave together the political,
personal, visionary and idealistic. This Penguin Classics edition
includes a fascinating introduction, notes and other materials by
leading Shelley scholars, Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy.
The articles in this number of Romantik include new research on
reverie and dream as the locus of metaphor in Percy Bysshe
Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; an enquiry into the Royal Swedish
Society for the Publication of Manuscripts Relating to Scandinavian
History and the role it played in the construction of national
memory and heritage; a discussion of Philippe Jacques de
Loutherbourg's and John Martin's iconographies of the sublime in
the intersection between art and popular visual spectacle; archival
discoveries related to the publication of medieval romance in early
nineteenth-century Britain; and a reassessment of The Prelude as a
formation narrative, arguing that William Wordsworth displays a
conflicted attitude to the growth and progress usually found in the
Bildungsroman. The journal also contains reviews of new books on
the romantic period published in the Nordic countries.
Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on the
shifting paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Prompted by
the changes and problems on the global scale, the last two decades
have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in theories which are
more embedded in the social realities and human condition. This
volume shows that theory can reinvent theory and re-define
criticism according to the demands of the new millennium. In this
context, it examines new ways of considering the relation of
post-theory to the concepts such as ethics, aesthetics, truth,
value, authenticity, human, and reality to understand the mindset
of the new century. Without disregarding or neglecting the legacy
of "Theory," this volume presents the various suggestions and
concerns of post-theoretical studies that reflect the sensibilities
of the contemporary social and cultural life. It is a timely and
relevant source of reference to those who wish to develop an
understanding of this change of attitude in post-theoretical
studies towards a more directly and sincerely responsive approach
to the current problems worldwide, their representations in
literature and language, reflections in theory, roots in
socio-political domains, and effects on the material reality.
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