Percy Bysshe Shelley
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This book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley's thought and major writings. As an introduction, it stresses his seriousness and sophistication, his poetic brilliance and intellectual courage. More specifically, its readings emphasise the materialistic and corporeal orientation of his work in opposition to a traditional view of him as a Romantic solipsist, a characterisation some of his own statements seem to invite. Fundamentally Shelley is understood here as a vanguard, revolutionary figure who writes for a better democratic future, but one which, paradoxically, he fears may threaten the cultural privilege it took to imagine it. But this pessimism is always the other side of an openness to new associations which continually reform both private and political life, relationship and citizenship.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0746308183
ISBN13:9780746308189
Release Date:June 2000
Publisher:Liverpool University Press
Length:120 Pages
Weight:0.39 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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