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The Neglected Shelley

The Neglected Shelley

ByAlan M. Weinberg, Timothy Webb
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 16 March 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315555294
Pages 368 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315555294
SubjectsLanguage & Literature
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Weinberg, A., Webb, T. (2015). The Neglected Shelley. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315555294

New editions and facsimiles of Percy Bysshe Shelley's works are changing the landscape of Shelley studies by making complete compositions and fragments that have received only limited critical attention readily available to scholars. Building on the work begun in Weinberg and Webb's 2009 volume, The Unfamiliar Shelley, The Neglected Shelley sheds light on the breadth and depth of Shelley's oeuvre, including the poet's earliest work, written when he was not yet twenty and was experimenting with gothic romances, and other striking forms of literary expression, such as two collections of provocative verse. There are discussions of Shelley's collaboration with Mary Shelley in the composition of Frankenstein, and his skill as a translator of Greek poetry and drama, reflecting his urgent concern with Greek culture. His contributions to prose are the focus of essays on his letters, the subversive notes to Queen Mab, and his complex engagement with Jewish culture. Shelley's considerable corpus of fragments is well-represented in contributions on the later narrative fiction, 'Athanase'/'Prince Athanase', and the significant group of unfinished poems, including 'Mazenghi', 'Fiordispina', 'Ginevra' and 'The Boat on the Serchio', that treat Italian topics. Finally, there are explorations of subtle though neglected or underestimated works such as Rosalind and Helen, The Sensitive-Plant, and the verse-drama Hellas. The Neglected Shelley shows that even the poet's apparently slighter works are important in their own right and are richly instructive as expressions of Shelley's developing art of composition and the diverse interests he pursued throughout his career.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
WithTimothy Webb, Alan M. Weinberg
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chapter 1|22 pages
An Uncelebrated Facility: The Achievement of Shelley’s Letters 1
WithTimothy Webb
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chapter 2|16 pages
Symmetrical Forms and Infuriate Paroxysms: Observing the Body in Percy Shelley’s Gothic Fiction
WithDiego Saglia
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chapter 3|26 pages
Harps, Heroes and Yelling Vampires: The 1810 Poetry Collections
WithDavid Duff
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chapter 4|18 pages
The Notes to Queen Mab and Shelley’s Spinozism
WithTimothy Morton
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chapter 5|21 pages
‘His left hand held the lyre’: Shelley’s Narrative Fiction Fragments
WithStephen C. Behrendt
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chapter 6|20 pages
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Text(s) in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein 1
WithCharles E. Robinson
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chapter 7|20 pages
Shelley’s Second Kingdom: Rosalind and Helen and ‘Mazenghi’
WithJack Donovan
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chapter 8|20 pages
Shelley’s Work in Progress: ‘Athanase: A Fragment’ and the Unfinished Draft of ‘Prince Athanase’
WithAlan M. Weinberg
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chapter 9|21 pages
Satyr Play in a Radical Vein: Shelley’s ‘Cyclops’
WithMaria Schoina
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chapter 10|16 pages
The Sensitive-Plant and the Poetry of Irresponsibility
WithRichard Cronin
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chapter 11|23 pages
‘Infinitely comical’: Italianizing the ‘Hymn to Mercury’
WithTimothy Webb
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chapter 12|22 pages
‘Wrecks of a Dissolving Dream’: Shelley’s Art of Ambivalence in Hellas
WithMichael O’Neill
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chapter 13|19 pages
Shelley, Jews and the Land of Promise
WithNora Crook
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chapter 14|26 pages
Shelley’s Italian Verse Fragments: Exploring the Notebook Drafts
WithAlan M. Weinberg
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