Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime

ISBN-13: 9780521854009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 280 str.

Cian Duffy; James Chandler; Marilyn Butler

Opis

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 sublime's role in the cultural history of Britain during the Romantic period as well as Shelley's fascination with natural phenomena.

Recenzje

'… [a] scrupulously argued and impressively researched monograph.' Bars Bulletin & Review

Spis treści

Introduction: approaching the Shelleyan sublime; 1. From religion to revolution, 1810–13; 2. Cultivating the imagination, 1813–15; 3. Mont Blanc and the Alps, 1816; 4. Writing the revolution: Laon and Cynthia, 1817–23; 5. 'Choose reform or civil war', 1818–19; Conclusion: 'Good and the means of good', 1822; Notes; Bibliography; Index.