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Author:   Michael O'Neill (Professor of English, Durham University) ,  Anthony Howe (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, School of English, Birmingham City University) ,  Madeleine Callaghan (Lecturer in Romantic Literature)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   1.224kg
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9780198806424

ISBN 10:   0198806426
Pages:   734
Publication Date:   27 July 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Michael O'Neill: Introduction BIOGRAPHY AND RELATIONSHIPS Donald H. Reiman and James Bieri: Shelley and the British Isles Ralph Pite: Shelley and Italy Ann Wroe: Resolutions, Destinations: Shelley s Last Year Nora Crook: Shelley and Women Stephen Behrendt: Shelley and his Publishers PART 2 PROSE Anthony Howe: Shelley and Philosophy: On a Future State, Speculations on Metaphysics and Morals, On Life Gavin Hopps: Religion and Ethics: The Necessity of Atheism, A Refutation of Deism, On Christianity Teddi Lynn Chichester: Love, Sexuality, Gender: On Love, Discourse on Love, and The Banquet of Plato Steven E. Jones: Politics and Satire Michael Scrivener: Politics, Protest, and Social Reform: Irish Pamphlets, Notes to Queen Mab, Letter to Lord Ellenborough, A Philosophical View of Reform Paul Hamilton: Poetics Diane Long Hoeveler: Prose Fiction: Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, The Assassins, The Coliseum Daisy Hay: Shelley's Letters PART 3 POETRY Nancy Moore Goslee: Shelley's Draft Notebooks David Duff: Lyric Development: Esdaile Notebook to Hymns of 1816 Jack Donovan: Epic Experiments: Queen Mab and Laon and Cythna Mark Sandy: Quest Poetry: Alastor and Epipsychidion Stuart Curran: Lyrical Drama: Prometheus Unbound and Hellas Michael Rossington: Tragedy: The Cenci and Swellfoot the Tyrant Anthony Howe: Shelley's Familiar Style : Rosalind and Helen, Julian and Maddalo, and Letter to Maria Gisborne Michael O'Neill: Sonnets and Odes Susan Wolfson: Popular Songs and Ballads: Writing the Unwritten Story in 1819 Jerrold E. Hogle: Visionary Rhyme: The Sensitive-Plant and The Witch of Atlas Shahidha Bari: Lyrics and Love Poems: Poems to Sophia Stacey, Jane Williams, and Mary Shelley Michael O'Neill: Shelley's Pronouns: Lyrics, Hellas, Adonais, and The Triumph of Life PART 4 CULTURES, TRADITIONS, INFLUENCES Ian Balfour: Shelley and the Bible Anthony John Harding: Shelley, Mythology, and the Classical Tradition Alan Weinberg: Shelley and the Italian Tradition Frederick Burwick: Origins of Evil: Shelley, Goethe, Calderón, and Rousseau Madeleine Callaghan: Shelley and Milton Michael O'Neill and Paige Tovey: Shelley and the English Tradition: Spenser and Pope Kelvin Everest: Shelley and His Contemporaries Jessica K. Quillin: Shelley and Music Bernard Beatty: Shelley, Shakespeare, and Theatre Sarah Wootton: Shelley, the Visual Arts, and Cinema Marilyn Gaull: Shelley's Sciences Benjamin Colbert: Shelley, Travel, and Tourism PART FIVE AFTERLIVES Richard Cronin: Shelley and the Nineteenth Century Jeffrey C. Robinson: The Influences of Shelley on Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Poetry Michael Rossington: Editing Shelley Jane Stabler: Shelley Criticism from Romanticism to Modernism Arthur Bradley: Shelley Criticism from Deconstruction to the Present

Reviews

The result is nothing less than a fascinating, encyclopaedic account of the many genres, modes, and concerns of Shelley's writing, the many contemporary and academic approaches to that writing, and Shelley's many and varied influences on subsequent cultural texts. Cian Duffy, European Romantic Review ... not only contextualizes many of the recent developments in Shelley studies, but also provides new inroads into the study of his life and his works. ...[It] fully satisfies its stated aim of providing a resource not only for seasoned academics and researchers, but also-crucially-for new readers who will extend and shape the poet's legacy in the generations to come. The Year's Work in English Studies Concretely historical and conceptually astute at once, and therefore to offer a full picture of Shelley's still-challenging accomplishment ... It is exhilarating to read this luminously intelligent guidebook from cover to cover. Nathan K. Hensely, Notes and Queries there can be little doubt that this superb addition to the Oxford Handbook series succeeds in its ... ambition ... [an] extremely impressive achievement. David O'Shaughnessy, BARS Review [This book] should find a place in every university library ... The Shelley who emerges is an appropriately complex figure, fascinated by other writers and literary traditions, political ideas and philosophical theories. ... There are many excellent essays in the collection, which do not simply survey or collate already known characteristics of Shelley but offer a new perspective informed by original research. Sharon Ruston, Modern Language Review an astonishingly thorough examination of Shelley's literary career ... As a collection of eminently readable essays, this volume is a splendid accomplishment, presenting a dynamic, fascinating, thoughtful, and hard-working Shelley ... While providing plenty of biographical, historical, literary, and other contextual information, this collection puts the writing - prose and verse - in sharp focus without ignoring the interesting, often titillating aspects of Shelley's personal life and the famous relationships the poet enjoyed ... Refreshingly, the volume never loses sight of Shelley's work or his intellect and creativity. D. A. Robinson, Choice The volume has a long-range critical lens, and it is fair to say that this should give it a place for many years to come. Equally, the elegant and deeply informed formalism practised in many of the essays here is no bad model for future Shelley Studies ... one cannot fail to be impressed overall by a book that offers such a thorough and learned overview of all aspects of Shelley, whilst also striking any reader on any given page with sharp and surprising readings of individual moments, contexts or stanzas. One could not ask for much more in a book of this nature. Christopher Stokes, Byron Journal

The volume has a long-range critical lens, and it is fair to say that this should give it a place for many years to come. Equally, the elegant and deeply informed formalism practised in many of the essays here is no bad model for future Shelley Studies ... one cannot fail to be impressed overall by a book that offers such a thorough and learned overview of all aspects of Shelley, whilst also striking any reader on any given page with sharp and surprising readings of individual moments, contexts or stanzas. One could not ask for much more in a book of this nature. * Christopher Stokes, Byron Journal * an astonishingly thorough examination of Shelley's literary career ... As a collection of eminently readable essays, this volume is a splendid accomplishment, presenting a dynamic, fascinating, thoughtful, and hard-working Shelley ... While providing plenty of biographical, historical, literary, and other contextual information, this collection puts the writing - prose and verse - in sharp focus without ignoring the interesting, often titillating aspects of Shelley's personal life and the famous relationships the poet enjoyed ... Refreshingly, the volume never loses sight of Shelley's work or his intellect and creativity. * D. A. Robinson, Choice * [This book] should find a place in every university library ... The Shelley who emerges is an appropriately complex figure, fascinated by other writers and literary traditions, political ideas and philosophical theories. ... There are many excellent essays in the collection, which do not simply survey or collate already known characteristics of Shelley but offer a new perspective informed by original research. * Sharon Ruston, Modern Language Review * there can be little doubt that this superb addition to the Oxford Handbook series succeeds in its ... ambition ... [an] extremely impressive achievement. * David O'Shaughnessy, BARS Review * Concretely historical and conceptually astute at once, and therefore to offer a full picture of Shelley's still-challenging accomplishment ... It is exhilarating to read this luminously intelligent guidebook from cover to cover. * Nathan K. Hensely, Notes and Queries * ... not only contextualizes many of the recent developments in Shelley studies, but also provides new inroads into the study of his life and his works. ...[It] fully satisfies its stated aim of providing a resource not only for seasoned academics and researchers, but also-crucially-for new readers who will extend and shape the poet's legacy in the generations to come. * The Year's Work in English Studies * The result is nothing less than a fascinating, encyclopaedic account of the many genres, modes, and concerns of Shelley's writing, the many contemporary and academic approaches to that writing, and Shelley's many and varied influences on subsequent cultural texts. * Cian Duffy, European Romantic Review *

Author Information

Michael O'Neill is a well-known critic of poetry, and has written monographs on Shelley (1989), Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem (1997), and The All-Sustaining Air (2007). He edited The Cambridge History of English Poetry (2010), and has also co-edited (with Madeleine Callaghan) Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon (2011), and a much-praised anthology of Romantic poetry with detailed comments on poetic form (2007), both for Blackwell. He has published two collections of poems, and received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets in 1990. His work has been much praised by many critics for its sensitivity to poetry and its ability to find an answerable language for poetic effects. Anthony Howe has taught at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities and is currently Reader and Director of Graduate Research at Birmingham City University. He has published essays on Byron and Shelley and is currently finishing a monograph entitled Byron and the Forms of Thought for Liverpool University Press. Madeleine Callaghan is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her research specialty is the poetry of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Yeats, and she also has research interests in post-war British and Irish poetry. She is the co-editor (with Michael O´Neill) of Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon.

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