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Author:   Merrilees Roberts
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780367256432

ISBN 10:   0367256436
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   18 May 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction i Shelley’s Shames ii Shame Theories iii Reticence iv Affect and Romanticism v Texts Chapter One: Reticent Impersonations: Shelley’s Unhappy Consciousness i The Empty Subject ii Bad Faith iii Shame and Ideology iv Historicism v The Problems of Materialism Chapter Two: Alastor’s Mute Poets i Shelley and Wordsworth ii Rejecting ‘natural piety’ iii The veilèd maid and the disgrace of the alternative iv The narrator as victim of his own constructions Chapter Three: Shame, Silence and Historicism in The Cenci i Beatrice’s Casuistry ii Shame and De-humanisation iii Shame as Self-construction Chapter Four: Julian and Maddalo: What the ‘cold world shall not know’ i The Reticence of ‘the cold world’ and Shelley’s Critique of Symbols ii The Maniac’s Resistance and Byron’s ‘Prometheus’ iii The Maniac’s Performance of Shame iv Julian’s Reserve Chapter Five: Metaphysical Sympathies i Sympathetic Poetics in A Defence of Poetry ii Transcending the Ego in Ode to the West Wind, Mont Blanc, Ode to Intellectual Beauty and Adonais Chapter Six: The Jane Poems: Love, Lyric and Life i Eroticism and the hollowness of the ""Lyric I"" ii Sensory Bad faith iii Beyond Denial Chapter Seven: The Triumph of Life: Pleasure versus process and the shame of self-knowledge i The Failure of Allegory ii Rousseau as the Subject-in-Shame iii Countering the ‘cold glare’ Conclusion"

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Merrilees Roberts is a teaching associate at Queen Mary, University of London, where she teaches mainly literary theory. She also completed her doctoral work on Percy Shelley at Queen Mary, examining reticence in Percy Shelley’s poetry and philosophy.

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