Shelley

Author : Jacqueline Mulhallen
Publisher : Revolutionary Lives
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 074533461X

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Percy Bysshe Shelley by Jacqueline Mulhallen Pdf

Today, Percy Bysshe Shelley is an emblem of the Romantic movement and one of the lights of English culture--his poems memorized by schoolchildren, his life honored with a memorial in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner. That wasn't always the case, however. In his own day, Shelley was widely loathed, seen as an immoral atheist and a traitor to his class for his revolutionary politics. His work was damned as well, receiving scathing reviews rooted as much in disapproval of his politics and personal life as in the verse itself. That's the Shelley that Jacqueline Mulhallen brings to life in this accessible, political biography: the Shelley who, though writing when the working class was in its infancy, clearly grasped--and wanted to change--the system of oppression under which laborers and women lived. The revolutionary Shelley, Mulhallen shows, has long served as an inspiration to figures from Karl Marx to W. B. Yeats to the poets and writers of today, and for popular movements like the Chartists and the suffragettes, even as his public image and poetry became part of the establishment. An engaging look at one of English history and literature's most compelling, complicated, and talented figures, Percy Bysshe Shelley will be a valuable contribution to our understanding of the man and his work.

Author : Michael O'Neill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317896364

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Shelley by Michael O'Neill Pdf

Attacked by T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis, Shelley's poetry has, over the last few decades, enjoyed a revival of critical interest. His radical politics and arrestingly original poetic strategies have been studied from a variety of perspectives - formalist, deconstructionist, new historicist, feminist and others. Of all the Romantics, Shelly has benefited most from the so-called 'theoretical revolution', as is borne out by the wide range of recent critical work represented in this volume. The 134 essays selected analyse many of Shelley's finest poems, including Alastor, Julian and Maddalo, Prometheus Unbound, Adonais and The Triumph of Life. Michael O'Neill's informed Introduction explores the contours of this debate. Detailed headnotes to the individual essays, explanations of difficult terms, and a further reading section provide invaluable guides to the reader. This collection illuminates the enduring and contemporary significance of the work of a major poet.

Author : Fiona Sampson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681778211

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In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson Pdf

Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein in 1818, a prize-winning poet delivers a major new biography of Mary Shelley—as she has never been seen before. We know the facts of Mary Shelley’s life in some detail—the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous books have ignored the real person—what she actually thought and felt and why she did what she did—despite the fact that Mary and her group of second-generation Romantics were extremely interested in the psychological aspect of life. In this probing narrative, Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster across the arctic wastes. Sampson has written a book that finally answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. No previous biographer has ever truly considered this question, let alone answered it.

Author : Miranda Seymour
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571279678

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Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour Pdf

Mary Shelley's own life was as dramatic as her fiction. Even had she not (at the age of 19) authored Frankenstein, one of the greatest horror fables in literature, she would be crucial to the study of Romanticism, as the daughter of two of the great radical thinkers of the day, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft (who died following Mary's birth); and as the second Mrs Percy Bysshe Shelley, her companion for that stormy stay at Byron's Geneva villa in 1816 - the 'haunted summer' that begat Frankenstein. Drawing on unexplored sources, Miranda Seymour's hugely acclaimed biography penetrates the myth to offer the fullest, richest portrait of this extraordinary woman. 'Mary Shelley is the most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for an entire decade.' Financial Times 'Brilliant and enthralling, this portrait illuminates Mary's life in many unexpected ways.' Independent on Sunday 'Miranda Seymour has vivid narrative gifts and a perceptive understanding of the main personalities.' New York Times Book Review 'A thoughtfully considered and exceptionally lifelike portrait of a complex and often misunderstood character.' Los Angeles Times 'A harrowing life, wonderfully retold.' Washington Post Book World 'A splendid biography.' New Yorker

Author : Robert D. San Souci
Publisher : Dial Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Heroes
ISBN : UOM:49015002325521

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Kate Shelley by Robert D. San Souci Pdf

Once in a while an ordinary person performs a deed so brave and unexpected that we remember it long afterward. Kate Shelley was such a person. In the midst of a torrential storm in the summer in 1881, a dreadful train wreck occurred near fifteen-year-old Kate's Iowa farm. Find out what deeds make Kate a well remembered person of courage.

Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : English poetry
ISBN : PRNC:32101067175511

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The Minor Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley Pdf

Every poet has major works and minor works. This volume collects many of Shelley's lesser known and most frequently overlooked poems.

Author : Shelley Parker-Chan
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250621795

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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan Pdf

Two-time British Fantasy Award Winner Astounding Award Winner Lambda Literary Award Finalist Hugo Award Finalist Locus Award Finalist Otherwise Award Finalist "Magnificent in every way."—Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree "A dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal."—Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything “I refuse to be nothing...” In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness... In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected. When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate. After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Bruce Shelley
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781418530051

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Church History in Plain Language by Bruce Shelley Pdf

It's about time that someone wrote church history that tells about people, not just about "eras" and "ages." Church History in Plain Language taps the roots of our Christian family tree. It combines authoritative research with a captivating style to bring our heritage home to us.

Author : John Keats,Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494104288

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John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, V1 by John Keats,Percy Bysshe Shelley Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.

Author : Betty T. Bennett,Stuart Curran
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801874628

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Mary Shelley in Her Times by Betty T. Bennett,Stuart Curran Pdf

“Some of the strongest essays of recent times on Shelley’s work . . . A valuable piece of criticism.” —Byron Journal Mary Shelley is largely remembered as the author of Frankenstein, as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and as the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. This collection of essays, edited by Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran, offers a more complete and complex picture of Mary Shelley—author of six novels, five volumes of biographical lives, two travel books, and numerous short stories, essays, and reviews—emphasizing the full range and significance of her writings in terms of her own era and ours. Mary Shelley in Her Times brings fresh insight to the life and work of an often neglected and misunderstood writer who, the editors remind us, spent nearly three decades at the center of England’s literary world during the country’s profound transition between the Romantic and Victorian eras. The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of Mary Shelley’s neglected novels, including Matilda, Valperga, The Last Man, and Falkner. Other topics include her work in various literary genres, her editing of her husband’s poetry and prose, her politics, and her trajectory as a female writer. This volume advances Mary Shelley studies to a new level of discourse and raises important issues for English Romanticism and women’s studies.

Author : John Cordy Jeaffreson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : HARVARD:HXDELQ

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The Real Shelley by John Cordy Jeaffreson Pdf

Author : Dana Van Kooy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317055518

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Shelley's Radical Stages by Dana Van Kooy Pdf

Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romanticism in which history is 'staged'. Reading Shelley's dramas as a series of radical stages - historical reenactments and theatrical reproductions - Van Kooy highlights the cultural significance of the drama and the theatre in shaping and contesting constructions of both the sovereign nation and the global empire in the post-Napoleonic era. This book is about the power of performance to challenge and reformulate cultural memories that were locked in historical narratives and in Britain's theatrical repertoire. It examines each of Shelley's dramas as a specific radical stage that reformulates the familiar cultural performances of war, revolution, slavery and domestic tyranny. Shelley's plays invite audiences to step away from these horrors and to imagine their lives as something other than a tragedy or a melodrama where characters are entrapped in cycles of violence or struck blind or silent by fear. Although Shelley's dramas are few in number they engage a larger cultural project of aesthetic and political reform that constituted a groundswell of activism that took place during the Romantic period.

Author : Edward John Trelawny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : MINN:31951002184608I

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Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author by Edward John Trelawny Pdf

Author : Teddi Chichester Bonca,Teddi Lynn Chichester
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 079143978X

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Shelley's Mirrors of Love by Teddi Chichester Bonca,Teddi Lynn Chichester Pdf

An analysis of Shelley's fiction, poetry, and letters covers the topics of narcissism, gender identity, and self-idolotry.

Author : Henry S. Salt
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Shelley's Principles by Henry S. Salt Pdf