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The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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by Madeleine Callaghan, Michael O'Neill (Editor), Anthony Howe (Editor)
Madeleine Callaghan
The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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by Madeleine Callaghan, Michael O'Neill (Editor), Anthony Howe (Editor)
Madeleine Callaghan
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The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley takes stock of current developments in the study of a major Romantic poet and prose-writer, and seeks to advance Shelley studies in new directions. It consists of forty-two chapters written by an international cast of established and emerging scholar-critics. This Handbook is divided into five thematic sections: Biography and Relationships; Prose; Poetry; Cultures, Traditions, Influences; and Afterlives. The first section reappraises Shelley's life and relationships, including those with his publishers through whom he sought to reach an audience for the 'Ashes and sparks' of his thought, and with women, creative collaborators as well as muse-figures. The second section gives his under-investigated prose works detailed attention, bringing multiple perspectives to bear on his conceptual positions, and demonstrating the range of his achievement in prose works from novels to political and poetic treatises. The third section explores Shelley's creativity and gift as a poet, emphasizing his capacity to excel in many different poetic genres. The fourth section looks at Shelley's response to past and present literary cultures, both English and international, and at his immersion in science, music, theatre, the visual arts, and travel. The fifth section concludes the volume by analysing Shelley's literary and cultural afterlife, from his influence on Victorians and Moderns, to his status as the exemplary poet for Deconstruction. Packed with stimulating insights and readings, The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley brings out the relevance to Shelley's own work of his dictum that 'All high poetry is infinite' .
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199558360 |
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| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication date: | 03/01/2013 |
| Series: | Oxford Handbooks |
| Pages: | 734 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.80(d) |
About the Author
Michael O'Neill, Professor of English, Durham University,Anthony Howe, Reader and Director of Graduate Research, School of English, Birmingham City University,Madeleine Callaghan, Lecturer in Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield
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.
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Michael O'NeillBIOGRAPHY AND RELATIONSHIPSShelley and the British Isles, Donald H. Reiman and James BieriShelley and Italy, Ralph PiteResolutions, Destinations: Shelley s Last Year, Ann WroeShelley and Women, Nora CrookShelley and his Publishers, Stephen BehrendtPART 2 PROSEShelley and Philosophy: On a Future State, Speculations on Metaphysics and Morals, On Life, Anthony HoweReligion and Ethics: The Necessity of Atheism, A Refutation of Deism, On Christianity, Gavin HoppsLove, Sexuality, Gender: On Love, Discourse on Love, and The Banquet of Plato, Teddi Lynn ChichesterPolitics and Satire, Steven E. JonesPolitics, Protest, and Social Reform: Irish Pamphlets, Notes to Queen Mab, Letter to Lord Ellenborough, A Philosophical View of Reform, Michael ScrivenerPoetics, Paul HamiltonProse Fiction: Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, The Assassins, The Coliseum, Diane Long HoevelerShelley's Letters, Daisy HayPART 3 POETRYShelley's Draft Notebooks, Nancy Moore GosleeLyric Development: Esdaile Notebook to Hymns of 1816, David DuffEpic Experiments: Queen Mab and Laon and Cythna, Jack DonovanQuest Poetry: Alastor and Epipsychidion, Mark SandyLyrical Drama: Prometheus Unbound and Hellas, Stuart CurranTragedy: The Cenci and Swellfoot the Tyrant, Michael RossingtonShelley's Familiar Style : Rosalind and Helen, Julian and Maddalo, and Letter to Maria Gisborne, Anthony HoweSonnets and Odes, Michael O'NeillPopular Songs and Ballads: Writing the Unwritten Story in 1819, Susan WolfsonVisionary Rhyme: The Sensitive-Plant and The Witch of Atlas, Jerrold E. HogleLyrics and Love Poems: Poems to Sophia Stacey, Jane Williams, and Mary Shelley, Shahidha BariShelley's Pronouns: Lyrics, Hellas, Adonais, and The Triumph of Life, Michael O'NeillPART 4 CULTURES, TRADITIONS, INFLUENCESShelley and the Bible, Ian BalfourShelley, Mythology, and the Classical Tradition, Anthony John HardingShelley and the Italian Tradition, Alan WeinbergOrigins of Evil: Shelley, Goethe, Calderon, and Rousseau, Frederick BurwickShelley and Milton, Madeleine CallaghanShelley and the English Tradition: Spenser and Pope, Michael O'Neill and Paige ToveyShelley and His Contemporaries, Kelvin EverestShelley and Music, Jessica K. QuillinShelley, Shakespeare, and Theatre, Bernard BeattyShelley, the Visual Arts, and Cinema, Sarah WoottonShelley's Sciences, Marilyn GaullShelley, Travel, and Tourism, Benjamin ColbertPART FIVE AFTERLIVESShelley and the Nineteenth Century, Richard CroninThe Influences of Shelley on Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Poetry, Jeffrey C. RobinsonEditing Shelley, Michael RossingtonShelley Criticism from Romanticism to Modernism, Jane StablerShelley Criticism from Deconstruction to the Present, Arthur BradleyFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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