Laon and cythna, or, The revolution of the golden city
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Laon and cythna, or, The revolution of the golden city
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Broadview Press, c2016
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Laon and cythna
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"Percy Bysshe Shelley : a brief chronology": p. 33-36
"Works cited and select bibliography": p. 293-298
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Description
Laon and Cythna is one of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most celebrated, and most controversial, literary works. At once philosophical treatise and love story, it follows the adventures of a pair of siblings who lead a political uprising based on socialist, feminist, and ecological ideals, only to be executed for treason. In its own time Shelley’s poem was condemned by some for promoting sedition, atheism, promiscuity, and incest, while others praised its beauty and radical vision. Although it inspired a generation of writers and activists, today Laon and Cythna is hardly read except by scholars. This edition seeks to correct that oversight and to introduce new audiences to this important and powerful text.
Historical appendices provide context for Shelley’s political and philosophical ideas, contemporary feminism, and the treatment of Asia and the Middle East in Romantic literature.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements Introduction Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Laon and Cythna
- or, The Revolution of the Golden City Appendix A: Shelley’s Political and Philosophical Prose From A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813) From “On Love” (1818) From “A Philosophical View of Reform” (1819–20) Appendix B: Correspondence about Laon and Cythna Shelley to an unknown publisher (13 October 1817) From Shelley to Charles Ollier (3 December 1817) From Shelley to William Godwin (11 December 1817) Shelley to Charles Ollier (11 December 1817) From Shelley to Thomas Moore (16 December 1817) From Shelley to Charles Ollier (22 January 1818) Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews of The Revolt of Islam From Leigh Hunt, “Literary Notices, No. 39,” The Examiner (1 February 1818) From Leigh Hunt, “Literary Notices, No. 41,” The Examiner (1 March 1818) From [John Gibson Lockhart,] “Observations on the Revolt of Islam,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (January 1819) From [John Taylor Coleridge,] “Shelley’s Revolt of Islam,” Quarterly Review (April 1819) From Leigh Hunt, “The Quarterly Review and the Revolt of Islam,” The Examiner (10 October 1819) Appendix D: Revising the Romance From Richard Hurd, Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762) From Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) From Helen Maria Williams, Letters from France (1792) From William Wordsworth, “The Female Vagrant” (1798) From Lord Byron, Canto II of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812) Appendix E: The Rights of Women From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) From William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, 3rd ed. (1798) From James Lawrence, The Empire of the Nairs (1811) Appendix F: Romantic Orientalism From Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Persian Letters (1721) From Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney, The Ruins: or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires (1791) From Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) From Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), The Missionary (1811) From Lord Byron, The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale (1813) From Thomas Love Peacock, Ahrimanes (c. 1815) Appendix G: Mary Shelley’s “Note on The Revolt of Islam” (1839) From Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, “Note on The Revolt of Islam” (1839) Works Cited and Select Bibliography
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