Romance and revolution
Shelley and the politics of a genre
by Duff, David
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The revival of romance as a literary form and the imaginative impact of the French Revolution are acknowledged influences on English Romanticism. But the question of how these seemingly antithetical forces combined has rarely been addressed.
In this innovative study of the transformations of a genre, David Duff examines the paradox whereby the unstable visionary world of romance came to provide an apt and accurate language for the representation of revolution, and how this literary form was itself politicised in the period. Drawing on an extensive range of textual and visual sources, he traces the ambivalent ideological overtones of the chivalric revival, the polemical appropriation of the language of romance in the 'pamphlet war' of the 1790s, and the emergence of a radical cult of chivalry among the Hunt-Shelley circle in 1815-17.
Central to the book is a detailed analysis of Shelley's neglected revolutionary romances Queen Mab and Laon and Cythna, flawed but fascinating poems in which the politics of romance is most fully displayed.
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Adaptations, British Foreign public opinion, Chivalry in literature, English Revolutionary poetry, English poetry, French influences, History, History and criticism, Influence, Knowledge, Literary form, Literature, Medievalism, Middle Ages in literature, Politics and literature, Romances, Romanticism, Shelley, percy bysshe, 1792-1822, Revolutionary poetry, history and criticism, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, influence, Romances, history and criticism, Romanticism, great britain, English poetry, history and criticism, 19th century, Knowledge and learningPlaces
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Romance and revolution: Shelley and the politics of a genre
1994, Cambridge University Press
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0521450187 9780521450188
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-267) and index.
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