Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity / Edition 1

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This book addresses the significance of the mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry and life, with Shelley as the focus for a study of the rich historical and theoretical issues relevant to motherhood in the Romantic period. Gelpi offers a derailed account of the historical rise in attention paid to mothering, the changing cultural attitudes towards the role of the mother, and the resulting effect on the nature of family life. Shelley's Goddess combines psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and feminist theory with extensive biographical material, information on motherhood in England after 1790, and a detailed reading of Prometheus Unbound, in an important reassessment of Shelley's avowed feminism and the failure of his utopian vision.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780195073843
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 10/28/1992
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 336
  • Product dimensions: 6.13 (w) x 9.13 (h) x 0.65 (d)

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Stanford University
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Pt. I The Nurse's Soul
1 Infancy Narratives 3
The Lacanian-Kristevan Narrative 5
The Interpersonal Narrative 17
Notes 31
2 Her Destined Sphere 35
Maternity Eroticized 43
The Mother-Educator 60
The Mother God(dess) 72
Notes 80
3 Queen of the Field Place Hive 83
Strategies of Infant Desire 87
A Mother-Son Alliance 105
Comus at Field Place 120
Notes 130
Pt. II Re-Membering the Mother
4 Seeing Through Mirrors (Prometheus Unbound, Act I) 137
Notes 168
5 The Source of Desire Seeks the End of Desire (Prometheus Unbound, Act II) 170
The Gaze of Soul-Making (Scene i) 170
The Caverns of Thought (Scenes i and ii) 188
Ritual Descent (Scenes iii and iv) 204
Prometheus/Adonis and the Mother Goddess (Scene v) 222
Notes 229
6 "Where the Split Began" (Prometheus Unbound, Act III) 236
The Rape of Thetis (Scene i) 237
Utopian Paradigms (Scene ii) 243
Mother and Son (Scene iii) 245
The Dipsas of Desire (Scene iv) 260
Notes 265
Conclusion 267
Works Cited 274
Index 288
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