Percy Shelley for Our Times

Omar F. Miranda, Kate Singer

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009206518
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings continue to resonate in remarkable ways. Shelley addressed climate change, women's liberation, nonbinary gender, and political protest, while speaking to Indigenous, queer/trans, disabled, displaced, and working-class communities. He still inspires artists and social justice movements around the world today. Yet Percy Shelley for Our Times reveals an even more farsighted writer, one whose poetic methodology went beyond the didactic powers of prophetic art. Not historicist, presentist, or transhistorical, Shelley 'for our times' conceives worlds outside himself, his poetry, and his era, envisioning how audiences connect and collaborate across space and time. This collection revitalizes a writer once considered an adolescent of idealist protest, showing how his interwoven poetics of relationality continually revisits the meaning of community and the contemporary. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Reviews
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: Percy Shelley’s Involving Poetics of Relationality
• Chapter 1 Shelley, Treaty-Making, and Indigenous Poetry
• Chapter 2 Waiting for the Revolution: Age, Debility, and Disability in The Triumph of Life
• Chapter 3 “A Chamæleonic Race”: Shelley and the Discourses of Slavery
• Chapter 4 Dream Defenders and the Inside Songs
• Chapter 5 Radical Suffering: Shelley’s Legacy in Nonviolent Revolution
• Chapter 6 Loathsome Sympathy: Shelley’s The Cenci and the Problem of Empathy
• Chapter 7 Hopeless Romanticism
• Chapter 8 Percy Shelley’s Sad Exile
• Chapter 9 Shelley in the Overgrowth
• Chapter 10 Creatrix Witches, Nonbinary Creatures, and Shelleyan Transmedia
• Chapter 11 Action at a Distance: Communication and Material Entanglement in Queen Mab and The Mask of Anarchy
• Chapter 12 Educating the Imagination/Defending Shelley Defending
• Further Reading
• Index