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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wheatley, Kim, 1960- Shelley and his readers. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c1999 (OCoLC)607313421 |
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| Named Person: | Percy Bysshe Shelley; Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kim Wheatley |
| ISBN: | 0826212212 9780826212214 |
| OCLC Number: | 41076382 |
| Description: | x, 278 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Paranoid Politics -- I. The Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews -- II. Shelley and the Tory Reviewers -- 2. Contagion and Personification in Queen Mab and Its Reception -- I. Contagion and Conspiracy -- II. Personifications and Personal Attacks -- 3. Prometheus Unbound: Reforming the Reviewers -- I. Defying Heaven -- II. "Nonsense" -- III. "Beautiful Idealisms" -- 4. The Elegiac Reception of Adonais -- I. Forms of Consolation -- II. "A Poetical Character" -- III. The Circle of Mourners. |
| Responsibility: | Kim Wheatley. |
Abstract:
"In Shelley and His Readers, the first full-length critical analysis of the dialogue between Shelley's poetry and its contemporary reviewers, Kim Wheatley argues that Shelley's idealism can be recovered through the study of his poetry's reception. Incorporating extensive research in major early-nineteenth-century British periodicals, Wheatley integrates a reception-based methodology with careful textual analysis to demonstrate that the early reception of Shelley's work registers the immediate impact of the poet's increasingly idealistic passion for reforming the world." "Shelley and His Readers offers a new approach to the question of how to recuperate Romantic idealism in the face of challenges from both deconstructive and historicist criticism. Its innovative use of reception-based analysis will make this book invaluable not only to specialists of the Romantic period but also to anyone interested in new developments in literary criticism."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, -- 1792-1822 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.
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- Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, -- 1792-1822 -- Critique et interprétation -- Histoire.
- Politique et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
- Écrivains et lecteurs -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
- Critique -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
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