Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime

AvCian Duffy

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Del 63 i serien Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

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A major new study of Percy Shelley's intellectual life and poetic career, Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime identifies Shelley's fascination with sublime natural phenomena as a key element in his understanding of the way ideas like 'nature' and 'imagination' informed the social and political structures of the Romantic period. Offering a genuinely fresh set of perspectives on Shelley's texts and contexts, Cian Duffy argues that Shelley's engagement with the British and French discourse on the sublime had a profound influence on his writing about political change in that age of revolutionary crisis. Examining Shelley's extensive use of sublime imagery and metaphor, Duffy offers not only a substantial reassessment of Shelley's work but also a significant re-appraisal of the role of the sublime in the cultural history of Britain during the Romantic period.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-06-11
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:410 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521111836

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Cian Duffy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York.

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'Cian Duffy's book is important for its refutation of the popularly held belief that Shelley's early materialism gave way to a Berkeleyan idealism … its correction of the conventional view that Kant is the source of Shelley's responses to the sublime … impressive … in its relation of canonical to marginal texts … as well as its highly persuasive extended readings of these texts. Duffy's accessible style allows Shelley's ideas to be seen clearly.' The Times Literary Supplement

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Introduction: approaching the Shelleyan sublime; 1. From religion to revolution, 1810–13; 2. Cultivating the imagination, 1813–15; 3. Mont Blanc and the Alps, 1816; 4. Writing the revolution: Laon and Cynthia, 1817–23; 5. 'Choose reform or civil war', 1818–19; Conclusion: 'Good and the means of good', 1822; Notes; Bibliography; Index.