Overview
The widespread and culturally significant impact of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings in Europe constitutes a particularly interesting case for a reception study because of the variety of responses they evoked. If radical readers cherished the 'red' Shelley, others favoured the lyrical poet, whose work was, like Byron's, anthologized and set to music. His major dramatic works, The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound, inspired numerous fin-de-siècle and expressionist dramatists and producers from Paris to Moscow. Shelley was read by, and influenced, the novelist Stendhal, the political theorist Engels, the Spanish symbolist Jiménez, and the Russian modernist poet Akhmatova. This exciting collection of essays by an international team of leading scholars considers translations, critical and biographical reviews, fictionalizations of his life, and other creative responses. It probes into transnational cross-currents to demonstrate the depth of Shelley's impact on European culture since his death in 1822. It will be an indispensable research resource for academics, critics, and writers with interests in Romanticism and its legacies.
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Author: Susanne Schmid (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany) , Dr Michael Rossington (Newcastle University, UK)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
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Width: 15.20cm
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, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.700kg
ISBN: 9781474245975
ISBN 10: 1474245978
Pages: 460
Publication Date: 21 May 2015
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Table of Contents
Series Editor's Preface: Elinor Shaffer (University of London) Acknowledgements List of Contributors Abbreviations Timeline: European Reception of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Susanne Schmid, Michael Rossington, Paul Barnaby and Lucia Krämer Introduction: Michael Rossington (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and Susanne Schmid (University of Regensburg) 1. The History of Shelley Editions in English, Stephen C. Behrendt (University of Nebraska) 2. Shelley 'fabriqué en France', Ann T. Gardiner 3.Shelley 's Afterlife in Italy: from 1822 to 1922, Lilla Maria Crisafulli (University of Bologna) 4. Shelley's afterlife in Italy: from 1922 to the present day, Laura Bandiera (University of Parma) 5. The Reception of Shelley in Spain, Beatriz González (University of Castilla-La Mancha) and Santiago Rodríguez (University of Valladolid) with Richard A. Cardwell (University of Nottingham) 6. Shelley, Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War, Bill Phillips (University of Barcelona) 7. Shelley in Portugal: a Poet for Academics, Jorge Bastos da Silva (University of Porto) 8. The Ineffectual Angel of Political Hijacking: Shelley in Romanian Culture, Mihaelia Anghelescu Irimia (University of Bucharest) 9. An 'Unseen Presence': Shelley in Germany, Susanne Schmid (University of Regensburg) 10. Shelley in the Nordic Countries: Would They Be Seeking Him if He Had Not Been Found?, Karsten Engelberg (Copenhagen University) 11. 'Love for a Godhead due': Shelley in the Low Countries, Kris Steyaert (University of Liège) 12. A Prophet of Love, a 'Moral Artist' or a Revolutionary?: Shelley in Czech Culture, Martin Procházka (Charles University, Prague) 13. Shelley in Poland, Monika Coghen (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) 14. 'A marvelously mild-tempered, gentle person': Shelley in Hungarian culture, István Rácz (University of Debrecen) 15. Revolutionary Etudes: The Reception of Shelley in Russia, Rachel Polonsky 16. Shelley's Heart of Hearts in Bulgaria, Vitana Kostadinova (University of Plovdiv) 17. 'The Prophet of Noble Struggles': Shelley in Greece, Maria Schoina (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) 18. 'I pant for the music which is divine': Shelley's Poetry and the Musical Imagination, Jeremy Dibble (Durham University) Bibliography Index
Reviews
Briefly reviewed in the Year's work in English Studies journal, vol 89, No. 1 '[A] volume that excitingly probes Shelley's reception in a dizzyingly broad range of languages, from Catalan and Greek to Bulgarian and Romanian.' 'The successive essays cover an unexpectedly inclusive variety of national situations, and repeatedly demonstrates the power of Shelley's different received images...to embody different aspects of cultural crisis.' -- Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review 'This is a fascinating book with a wonderful range of afterlives and countries.' -- The Keats-Shelley Review 'The book under review, which is the sixteenth volume of the valuable series on The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe is, therefore, a welcome edition to Shelley's scholarship... The timeline alone is an indispensible tool, as well as being the scaffolding for the rest of the book.' -- The Keats-Shelley Journal ... this new publication in the meritorious series is to be highly welcomed in the field of both Romantic Studies and comparative literature... In view of the gigantic task and the bewildering richness of names, titles and historical facts one cannot but congratulate the editors and contributors on their careful work. -- Archiv After seventeen volumes on the European-wide reception of Ossian, Byron, Coleridge, Wilde, Darwin, Lawrence, and other British and Irish authors in Britain and on the Continent, this new publication in the meritorious series is to be highly welcomed in the field both of Romantic studies and comparative literature. -- Archiv
Briefly reviewed in the Year's work in English Studies journal, vol 89, No. 1 '[A] volume that excitingly probes Shelley's reception in a dizzyingly broad range of languages, from Catalan and Greek to Bulgarian and Romanian.' 'The successive essays cover an unexpectedly inclusive variety of national situations, and repeatedly demonstrates the power of Shelley's different received images...to embody different aspects of cultural crisis.' -- Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review 'This is a fascinating book with a wonderful range of afterlives and countries.' -- The Keats-Shelley Review 'The book under review, which is the sixteenth volume of the valuable series on The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe is, therefore, a welcome edition to Shelley's scholarship... The timeline alone is an indispensible tool, as well as being the scaffolding for the rest of the book.' -- The Keats-Shelley Journal ... this new publication in the meritorious series is to be highly welcomed in the field of both Romantic Studies and comparative literature... In view of the gigantic task and the bewildering richness of names, titles and historical facts one cannot but congratulate the editors and contributors on their careful work. -- Archiv After seventeen volumes on the European-wide reception of Ossian, Byron, Coleridge, Wilde, Darwin, Lawrence, and other British and Irish authors in Britain and on the Continent, this new publication in the meritorious series is to be highly welcomed in the field both of Romantic studies and comparative literature. -- Archiv
[A] volume that excitingly probes Shelley's reception in a dizzyingly broad range of languages, from Catalan and Greek to Bulgarian and Romanian. Year's Work in English Studies, vol 89, no. 1 'The successive essays cover an unexpectedly inclusive variety of national situations, and repeatedly demonstrates the power of Shelley's different received images...to embody different aspects of cultural crisis.' -- Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review 'This is a fascinating book with a wonderful range of afterlives and countries.' -- The Keats-Shelley Review 'The book under review, which is the sixteenth volume of the valuable series on The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe is, therefore, a welcome edition to Shelley's scholarship... The timeline alone is an indispensible tool, as well as being the scaffolding for the rest of the book.' -- The Keats-Shelley Journal ... this new publication in the meritorious series is to be highly welcomed in the field of both Romantic Studies and comparative literature... In view of the gigantic task and the bewildering richness of names, titles and historical facts one cannot but congratulate the editors and contributors on their careful work. -- Archiv After seventeen volumes on the European-wide reception of Ossian, Byron, Coleridge, Wilde, Darwin, Lawrence, and other British and Irish authors in Britain and on the Continent, this new publication in the meritorious series is to be highly welcomed in the field both of Romantic studies and comparative literature. -- Archiv
Author Information
Susanne Schmid has taught at the universities of FU Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Princeton, Paderborn, Salford and Regensburg. She is the author of Shelley’s German Afterlives 1814 – 2000 (2007). Michael Rossington is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is one of the editors of The Poems of Shelley, Vol. 3 (2009). Elinor Shaffer, FBA is author of ‘Kubla Khan’ and The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature, and many articles on English and European Romanticism, and most recently co-editor of The Reception of S.T. Coleridge in Europe.
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