UID:
almahu_9947414263302882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511550546 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 63
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction : approaching the 'Shelleyan sublime' --
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From religion to revolution, 1810-1813 --
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Cultivating the imagination, 1813-1815 --
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Mont Blanc and the Alps, 1816 --
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Writing the revolution : Laon and Cythna, 1817 --
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'Choose reform or civil war', 1818-1819 --
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Conclusion : 'good and the means of good', 1822.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521854009
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511550546
