Description
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
Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Percy Shelley's involving poetics of relationality Omar F. Miranda and Kate Singer; 1. Shelley, treaty-making, and Indigenous poetry Nikki Hessell; 2. Waiting for the Revolution: age, debility, and disability in The Triumph of Life Fuson Wang; 3. 'A Chamæleonic Race': Shelley and the discourses of slavery Mathelinda Nabugodi; 4. Dream defenders and the inside songs Julie A. Carlson; 5. Radical suffering: Shelley's legacy in nonviolent revolution James Chandler; 6. Loathsome Sympathy: Shelley's The Cenci and the Problem of Empathy Alan Richardson; 7. Hopeless romanticism Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud; 8. Percy Shelley's sad exile Omar F. Miranda; 9. Shelley in the overgrowth Ross Wilson; 10. Creatrix witches, nonbinary creatures, and Shelleyan transmedia Kate Singer; 11. Action at a distance: communication and material entanglement in Queen Mab and The Mask of Anarchy Mary Fairclough; 12. Educating the imagination / defending Shelley defending Joel Faflak; Further reading bibliography; Index.
