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Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley ,
Anahid Nersessian
Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint: Broadview Press Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.410kg
ISBN: 9781554811946
ISBN 10: 1554811945
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 18 April 2016
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
With its illuminating appendices and compellingly argued introduction, Anahid Nersessian's edition of Laon and Cythna; Or, the Revolution of the Golden City richly contextualizes and enlivens one of Percy Bysshe Shelley's most understudied poems. This edition will become essential reading for students, scholars, or anyone studying Romantic literature's engagement with the French Revolution and its aftermath, orientalist aesthetics, feminist thought, and utopian philosophy. Indispensable for those working with the poem's later incarnation--the revised and retitled The Revolt of Islam--Nersessian's edition also makes the original censored poem and its literary and historical contexts easily accessible for the first time. -- Michele Speitz, Furman University This new edition of Laon and Cythna makes Shelley's epic revolutionary romance widely available in a scholarly yet accessible form for the first time. Anahid Nersessian's highly engaging and wide-ranging introduction makes a compelling case for the centrality of the text's preoccupations to Shelley's work and thought more widely, in particular, how Shelley's reflection on the nature and means of sociopolitical reform shapes the trajectory of the poem. The introduction and supplementary material provide a rich range of historical, political, and literary contexts for the poem. Nersessian demonstrates how the poem participates in contemporary debates about women's rights, the possibilities of non-violent revolution, and the desirability of vegetarianism, and discusses the poem's contribution to ideas of Romantic orientalism. This superb new edition is an invaluable resource for new readers and experienced scholars alike and is a timely contribution to Shelley studies more broadly. -- Sally West, University of Chester With its illuminating appendices and compellingly argued introduction, Anahid Nersessian's edition of Laon and Cythna; Or, the Revolution of the Golden City richly contextualizes and enlivens one of Percy Bysshe Shelley's most understudied poems. This edition will become essential reading for students, scholars, or anyone studying Romantic literature's engagement with the French Revolution and its aftermath, orientalist aesthetics, feminist thought, and utopian philosophy. Indispensable for those working with the poem's later incarnation--the revised and retitled The Revolt of Islam--Nersessian's edition also makes the original censored poem and its literary and historical contexts easily accessible for the first time. -- Michele Speitz, Furman University This new edition of Laon and Cythna makes Shelley's epic revolutionary romance widely available in a scholarly yet accessible form for the first time. Anahid Nersessian's highly engaging and wide-ranging introduction makes a compelling case for the centrality of the text's preoccupations to Shelley's work and thought more widely, in particular, how Shelley's reflection on the nature and means of sociopolitical reform shapes the trajectory of the poem. The introduction and supplementary material provide a rich range of historical, political, and literary contexts for the poem. Nersessian demonstrates how the poem participates in contemporary debates about women's rights, the possibilities of non-violent revolution, and the desirability of vegetarianism, and discusses the poem's contribution to ideas of Romantic orientalism. This superb new edition is an invaluable resource for new readers and experienced scholars alike and is a timely contribution to Shelley studies more broadly. -- Sally West, University of Chester
With its illuminating appendices and compellingly argued introduction, Anahid Nersessian's edition of Laon and Cythna; Or, the Revolution of the Golden City richly contextualizes and enlivens one of Percy Bysshe Shelley's most understudied poems. This edition will become essential reading for students, scholars, or anyone studying Romantic literature's engagement with the French Revolution and its aftermath, orientalist aesthetics, feminist thought, and utopian philosophy. Indispensable for those working with the poem's later incarnation--the revised and retitled The Revolt of Islam--Nersessian's edition also makes the original censored poem and its literary and historical contexts easily accessible for the first time. -- Michele Speitz, Furman University This new edition of Laon and Cythna makes Shelley's epic revolutionary romance widely available in a scholarly yet accessible form for the first time. Anahid Nersessian's highly engaging and wide-ranging introduction makes a compelling case for the centrality of the text's preoccupations to Shelley's work and thought more widely, in particular, how Shelley's reflection on the nature and means of sociopolitical reform shapes the trajectory of the poem. The introduction and supplementary material provide a rich range of historical, political, and literary contexts for the poem. Nersessian demonstrates how the poem participates in contemporary debates about women's rights, the possibilities of non-violent revolution, and the desirability of vegetarianism, and discusses the poem's contribution to ideas of Romantic orientalism. This superb new edition is an invaluable resource for new readers and experienced scholars alike and is a timely contribution to Shelley studies more broadly. -- Sally West, University of Chester
“With its illuminating appendices and compellingly argued introduction, Anahid Nersessian’s edition of Laon and Cythna; Or, the Revolution of the Golden City richly contextualizes and enlivens one of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most understudied poems. This edition will become essential reading for students, scholars, or anyone studying Romantic literature’s engagement with the French Revolution and its aftermath, orientalist aesthetics, feminist thought, and utopian philosophy. Indispensable for those working with the poem’s later incarnation—the revised and retitled The Revolt of Islam—Nersessian’s edition also makes the original censored poem and its literary and historical contexts easily accessible for the first time.” — Michele Speitz, Furman University “This new edition of Laon and Cythna makes Shelley’s epic revolutionary romance widely available in a scholarly yet accessible form for the first time. Anahid Nersessian’s highly engaging and wide-ranging introduction makes a compelling case for the centrality of the text’s preoccupations to Shelley’s work and thought more widely, in particular, how Shelley’s reflection on the nature and means of sociopolitical reform shapes the trajectory of the poem. The introduction and supplementary material provide a rich range of historical, political, and literary contexts for the poem. Nersessian demonstrates how the poem participates in contemporary debates about women’s rights, the possibilities of non-violent revolution, and the desirability of vegetarianism, and discusses the poem’s contribution to ideas of Romantic orientalism. This superb new edition is an invaluable resource for new readers and experienced scholars alike and is a timely contribution to Shelley studies more broadly.” — Sally West, University of Chester
With its illuminating appendices and compellingly argued introduction, Anahid Nersessian's edition of Laon and Cythna; Or, the Revolution of the Golden City richly contextualizes and enlivens one of Percy Bysshe Shelley's most understudied poems. This edition will become essential reading for students, scholars, or anyone studying Romantic literature's engagement with the French Revolution and its aftermath, orientalist aesthetics, feminist thought, and utopian philosophy. Indispensable for those working with the poem's later incarnation--the revised and retitled The Revolt of Islam--Nersessian's edition also makes the original censored poem and its literary and historical contexts easily accessible for the first time. -- Michele Speitz, Furman University This new edition of Laon and Cythna makes Shelley's epic revolutionary romance widely available in a scholarly yet accessible form for the first time. Anahid Nersessian's highly engaging and wide-ranging introduction makes a compelling case for the centrality of the text's preoccupations to Shelley's work and thought more widely, in particular, how Shelley's reflection on the nature and means of sociopolitical reform shapes the trajectory of the poem. The introduction and supplementary material provide a rich range of historical, political, and literary contexts for the poem. Nersessian demonstrates how the poem participates in contemporary debates about women's rights, the possibilities of non-violent revolution, and the desirability of vegetarianism, and discusses the poem's contribution to ideas of Romantic orientalism. This superb new edition is an invaluable resource for new readers and experienced scholars alike and is a timely contribution to Shelley studies more broadly. -- Sally West, University of Chester
Author Information
Anahid Nersessian is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment (Harvard University Press, 2015).
