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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Percy Shelley"”.
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The Godwinian psychology of hope and its legacy in the work of Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley
… Malthusian political economy in the late 1790s. Percy Shelley defined his literary project as an attempt to revive liberal hope in the wake of the `failure' of the French Revolution, a definition initiated by his reading of Godwin. His reaction against Wordsworthian conservatism is framed in the …
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Frankenstein: a monstrous romanticism
… is to examine the relationship between Mary Shelley's first novel Frankenstein and her own understanding of Romanticism. The overarching theme is to illustrate how Mary Shelley navigates her criticism of Romanticism through the medium of Victor Frankenstein as a character. With the inspection …
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Toward a Posthuman Ecology: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Transatlantic Romanticism
… sources for Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Mary and Percy Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Emily Dickinson. I connect aesthetic innovation to ethics to ask more broadly how literature can provide an affective and effective space to represent and engage scientific discourse. I conclude that …
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Who Died: Redefining the Elegy Through Affect and Trauma
… through Theocritus, John Milton, and Percy Shelley. The final portion will be an original creative collection of elegies combined with epitaphs as ending couplets about fictional characters who have died. For example, there are elegies about Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee, Ned Stark …
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Science, politics, and soul-making: the Romantic encounter with climate change
… major writers from 1780 to 1880 (William Cowper, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats and John Ruskin), I argue that an epistemic shift occurred in the way Britons understood their own climate’s history and its relationship to the earth’s climate. Using an ecohistorical method that combines …
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Goth Rhizomes: Queer Differences in Minor Gothic Literature
… and life narratives from Charlotte Dacre, Percy Shelley, Count Eric Stenbock, and Poppy Z. Brite (Billy Martin), I suggest ways in which my reading of minor figures and their works has implications for how we might re-read works by major authors Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey) and Henry …
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Islam in the English Radical Protestant Imagination, 1660--1830
… Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and the Shelleys. These writers, who either rejected or were troubled by the democratic principles promoted by the French Revolution, embraced Islam as a source of political hope in moments of crisis: when notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity turned …
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Communication with the Other World in Romantic Poetry
… ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, from P.B. Shelley’s fairy in ‘Queen Mab’ to Francesca’s ghost in Byron’s ‘The Siege of Corinth’, Romantic poetry is populated – or rather haunted – by supernatural beings coming into contact and often conversing with humans. In doing so, earthly and unearthly …