Shelley and the revolutionary sublime
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Shelley and the revolutionary sublime
（Cambridge studies in romanticism, 63）
Cambridge University Press, 2005
- : hbk
Available at 33 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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