A Brighter Morn: The Shelley Circle's Utopian Project

by Lisbeth Chapin (Contribution by), Julie M. Dugger (Contribution by), Christofer Foss (Contribution by), Kyle Grimes (Contribution by), Hugh Roberts (Contribution by)

Overview

Percy Bysshe Shelley's utopian vision was largely a product of the tumultuous final quarter of the eighteenth century, when the American, French, and industrial revolutions profoundly changed the way in which social, political, and economic relationships were viewed. In A Brighter Morn, noted Shelley scholars identify the qualities of this unique brand of utopianism, which was a complex and frequently conflicted blend of the personal, poetical, and political realms. This collection of essays sorts through these perplexities and discords, exploring Shelleyan utopianism in a variety of contexts— place and placelessness, time and timelessness, publicity and privacy, and physicality and spirituality— and concluding with a snapshot of the Western psyche at a crucial point in its development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739104729
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/22/2003
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Darby Lewes is Professor of English at Lycoming College. She is the author of Nudes from Nowhere: Utopian Sexual Landscapes (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000) and Dream Revisionaries: Genre and Gender in Women's Utopian Fiction, 1870–1920 (University of Alabama Press, 1995).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface: Utopia and the Shelley Circle
Chapter 2 Setting Minds Afloat: Shelley and Barruel in Ireland
Chapter 3 A Political Poetics: Percy Shelley's Utopian Activism
Chapter 4 Toward an Imaginative Poetics: A Convergence of Theory and Practice in A Philosophical View of Reform
Chapter 5 Private Visions/Public Responsibilities: The Alastor Volume
Chapter 6 Re/membering Home: Utopian Domesticity in Mary Shelley's Lodore
Chapter 7 The Aesthetic of Utopia in Shelley's Queen Mab
Chapter 8 Science and Spirit: Shelley's Vegetarian Essays and the Body as Utopian State
Chapter 9 Prophet and Loss: Women and the Shelley Circle's Utopian Project