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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Paul Hamilton
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Paperback.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746308189
SKU
V9780746308189
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Ref
99-36
About Paul Hamilton
Paul Hamilton is Professor of English and Head of the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. He was previously Professor of English at Southampton University, taught at the University of Nottingham and was a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford for ten years. His many publications include Coleridge’s Poetics (1983); Wordsworth (1986); Rethinking ... Read more
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