| The Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe Contributor(s): Schmid, Susanne (Editor), Rossington, Michael (Editor), Shaffer, Elinor (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0826495877 ISBN-13: 9780826495877 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $470.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: Volume of international research on the European reception of P.B. Shelley. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 821.7 |
| Series: Athlone Critical Traditions Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.85 lbs) 460 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The widespread and culturally significant impact of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings in Europe constitutes a particularly interesting case for a reception study because of the variety of responses they evoked. If radical readers cherished the 'red' Shelley, others favoured the lyrical poet, whose work was, like Byron's, anthologized and set to music. His major dramatic works, The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound, inspired numerous fin-de-si cle and expressionist dramatists and producers from Paris to Moscow. Shelley was read by, and influenced, the novelist Stendhal, the political theorist Engels, the Spanish symbolist Jim nez, and the Russian modernist poet Akhmatova. This exciting collection of essays by an international team of leading scholars considers translations, critical and biographical reviews, fictionalizations of his life, and other creative responses. It probes into transnational cross-currents to demonstrate the depth of Shelley's impact on European culture since his death in 1822. It will be an indispensable research resource for academics, critics, and writers with interests in Romanticism and its legacies. |
Contributor Bio(s): Schmid, Susanne: - "Susanne Schmid has taught at the universities FU Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Princeton, Paderborn, Salford and Regensburg. She is the author of Shelley's German Afterlives 1814 - 2000 (Palgrave, 2007)."Rossington, Michael: - Michael Rossington is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is one of the editors of The Poems of Shelley, Vol. 3 (Longman, 2009).Shaffer, Elinor: - Elinor Shaffer, FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, has published on Romantic and Victorian literature, is author of 'Kubla Khan' and The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School of Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature, edited the annual journal Comparative Criticism, and most recently has contributed to Samuel Butler: Victorian Against the Grain. |