The Shelley-Byron Circle and the Idea of Europe (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)

Stock, Paul

Palgrave Macmillan（2010/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230619630
• DDC分類 821.7

Full Description

This book investigates how Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and their circle understood the idea of Europe. What geographical, cultural, and ideological concepts did they associate with the term? What does this tell us about politics and identity in early nineteenth-century Britain? In addressing these questions, Paul Stock challenges prevailing nationalist interpretations of Romanticism, but without falling prey to imprecise alternative notions of cosmopolitanism or "world citizenship." Instead, his book accounts for both the transnational and the local in Romantic writing, reassessing the period in terms of more complex, multi-layered identity politics.

Contents

PART I'Spain, Portugal and Greece': Byron on the Borders of Europe, 1809-1811 'Repairing Shattered Thrones': Post-Waterloo Europe and the Shelley-Byron Circle, June 1815-December 1816 'The Elysium of Europe': Byron, Italy and Europe, June 1817-July 1818 PART II: EUROPE AND THE UNIVERSAL REVOLUTION: PERCY SHELLEY'S EUROPE, 1817-22 'Revolution in a European Nation': The Shelley Circle, January 1817-March 1818 'From a Particular to a Universal': EUROPEAN POLITICS, 1822-24 'A Congress for Outworn Europe': Byron's International Relations, October 1822-July 1823 The Cause of Greece, the Cause of Europe: The Byron Circle, July 1823-April 1824