The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-955836-0
Verlag: Sydney University Press

Buch, Englisch, 734 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1406 g

Reihe: Oxford Handbooks

The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley takes stock of developments in the study of a major Romantic poet and prose writer, and seeks to advance Shelley studies in new directions. It consists of forty-two chapters written by an international cast of established and emerging scholar-critics. This Handbook is divided into five thematic sections: Biography and Relationships; Prose; Poetry; Cultures, Traditions, Influences, and Afterlives. The first section reappraises Shelley's life and relationships, including those with his publishers through whom he sought to reach an audience for the 'Ashes and sparks' of his thought, and with women, creative collaborators as well as muse-figures. The second section gives his under-investigated prose works detailed attention, bringing multiple perspectives to bear on his conceptual positions, and demonstrating the range of his achievement in prose works from novels to political and poetic treatises. The third section explores Shelley's creativity and gift as a poet, emphasizing his capacity to excel in many different poetic genres. The fourth section looks at Shelley's response to past and present literary cultures, both English and international, and at his immersion in science, music, theatre, the visual arts, and travel. The fifth section concludes the volume by analyzing Shelley's literary and cultural afterlife, from his influence on Victorians and Moderns, to his status as the exemplary poet for Deconstruction. Packed with stimulating insights and readings. The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley brings out the relevance to Shelley's own work of his dictum that 'All high poetry is infinite'.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of Romantic literature; students and scholars of the Romantic period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Callaghan, Madeleine

O'Neill, Michael

Howe, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Michael O'Neill: Introduction
BIOGRAPHY AND RELATIONSHIPS
Donald H. Reiman and James Bieri: Shelley and the British Isles
Ralph Pite: Shelley and Italy
Ann Wroe: Resolutions, Destinations: Shelley s Last Year
Nora Crook: Shelley and Women
Stephen Behrendt: Shelley and his Publishers
PART 2 PROSE
Anthony Howe: Shelley and Philosophy: On a Future State, Speculations on Metaphysics and Morals, On Life
Gavin Hopps: Religion and Ethics: The Necessity of Atheism, A Refutation of Deism, On Christianity
Teddi Lynn Chichester: Love, Sexuality, Gender: On Love, Discourse on Love, and The Banquet of Plato
Steven E. Jones: Politics and Satire
Michael Scrivener: Politics, Protest, and Social Reform: Irish Pamphlets, Notes to Queen Mab, Letter to Lord Ellenborough, A Philosophical View of Reform
Paul Hamilton: Poetics
Diane Long Hoeveler: Prose Fiction: Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, The Assassins, The Coliseum
Daisy Hay: Shelley's Letters
PART 3 POETRY
Nancy Moore Goslee: Shelley's Draft Notebooks
David Duff: Lyric Development: Esdaile Notebook to Hymns of 1816
Jack Donovan: Epic Experiments: Queen Mab and Laon and Cythna
Mark Sandy: Quest Poetry: Alastor and Epipsychidion
Stuart Curran: Lyrical Drama: Prometheus Unbound and Hellas
Michael Rossington: Tragedy: The Cenci and Swellfoot the Tyrant
Anthony Howe: Shelley's Familiar Style : Rosalind and Helen, Julian and Maddalo, and Letter to Maria Gisborne
Michael O'Neill: Sonnets and Odes
Susan Wolfson: Popular Songs and Ballads: Writing the Unwritten Story in 1819
Jerrold E. Hogle: Visionary Rhyme: The Sensitive-Plant and The Witch of Atlas
Shahidha Bari: Lyrics and Love Poems: Poems to Sophia Stacey, Jane Williams, and Mary Shelley
Michael O'Neill: Shelley's Pronouns: Lyrics, Hellas, Adonais, and The Triumph of Life
PART 4 CULTURES, TRADITIONS, INFLUENCES
Ian Balfour: Shelley and the Bible
Anthony John Harding: Shelley, Mythology, and the Classical Tradition
Alan Weinberg: Shelley and the Italian Tradition
Frederick Burwick: Origins of Evil: Shelley, Goethe, Calderón, and Rousseau
Madeleine Callaghan: Shelley and Milton
Michael O'Neill and Paige Tovey: Shelley and the English Tradition: Spenser and Pope
Kelvin Everest: Shelley and His Contemporaries
Jessica K. Quillin: Shelley and Music
Bernard Beatty: Shelley, Shakespeare, and Theatre
Sarah Wootton: Shelley, the Visual Arts, and Cinema
Marilyn Gaull: Shelley's Sciences
Benjamin Colbert: Shelley, Travel, and Tourism
PART FIVE AFTERLIVES
Richard Cronin: Shelley and the Nineteenth Century
Jeffrey C. Robinson: The Influences of Shelley on Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Poetry
Michael Rossington: Editing Shelley
Jane Stabler: Shelley Criticism from Romanticism to Modernism
Arthur Bradley: Shelley Criticism from Deconstruction to the Present

Über Autor(innen)

O'Neill, Michael
Michael O'Neill is a well-known critic of poetry, and has written monographs on Shelley (1989), Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem (1997), and The All-Sustaining Air (2007). He edited The Cambridge History of English Poetry (2010), and has also co-edited (with Madeleine Callaghan) Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon (2011), and a much-praised anthology of Romantic poetry with detailed comments on poetic form (2007), both for Blackwell. He has published two collections of poems, and received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets in 1990. His work has been much praised by many critics for its sensitivity to poetry and its ability to find an answerable language for poetic effects.

Howe, Anthony
Anthony Howe has taught at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities and is currently Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Birmingham City University. He has published essays on Byron and Shelley and is currently finishing a monograph entitled Byron and the Forms of Thought for Liverpool University Press.

Callaghan, Madeleine
Madeleine Callaghan is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her research specialty is the poetry of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Yeats, and she also has research interests in post-war British and Irish poetry. She is the co-editor (with Michael O´Neill) of Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon.

Michael O'Neill is a well-known critic of poetry, and has written monographs on Shelley (1989), Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem (1997), and The All-Sustaining Air (2007). He edited The Cambridge History of English Poetry (2010), and has also co-edited (with Madeleine Callaghan) Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon (2011), and a much-praised anthology of Romantic poetry with detailed comments on poetic form (2007), both for Blackwell. He has published two collections of poems, and received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets in 1990. His work has been much praised by many critics for its sensitivity to poetry and its ability to find an answerable language for poetic effects.

Anthony Howe has taught at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities and is currently Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Birmingham City University. He has published essays on Byron and Shelley and is currently finishing a monograph entitled Byron and the Forms of Thought for Liverpool University Press.

Madeleine Callaghan is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her research specialty is the poetry of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Yeats, and she also has research interests in post-war British and Irish poetry. She is the co-editor (with Michael O´Neill) of Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon.