Description |
xiv, 260 pages ; 24 cm |
Series |
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 63 |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 63
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Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 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; Bilbiography |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index |
Subject |
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Sublime, The, in literature.
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LC no. |
2006274988 |
ISBN |
0521854008 (hbk.) |
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9780521854009 (hbk.) |
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