Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Author: Cian Duffy, St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill
- Date Published: October 2005
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521854009
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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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'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
See more reviews'… [a] scrupulously argued and impressively researched monograph.' Bars Bulletin & Review
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- Date Published: October 2005
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521854009
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.58kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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
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