1st Edition

Shelley and the Musico-Poetics of Romanticism

By Jessica K. Quillin Copyright 2012
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Addressing a gap in Shelley studies, Jessica K. Quillin explores the poet's lifelong interest in music. Quillin connects the trope of music with Shelley's larger formal aesthetic, political, and philosophical concerns, showing that music offers a new critical lens through which to view such familiar Shelleyan concerns as the status of the poetic, figural language, and the philosophical problem... Read more
Abbreviations of Works Cited, Jessica K. Quillin; Introduction, Jessica K. Quillin; Part 1 Overture: Setting the Context for Shelley’s Ideas on Music; Chapter 1 Shelley’s Musical Background, Jessica K. Quillin; Chapter 2 The Role of Musical Aesthetics in Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry, Jessica K. Quillin; Part 2 “When music and moonlight and feeling / Are one”: Musical Metaphors and the Kinetics of Language in Shelley’s Poetry; Chapter 102 Prologue, Jessica K. Quillin; Chapter 3 “Her voice was like the voice of his own soul”: Music and Silence in Alastor; or The Spirit of Solitude, Jessica K. Quillin; Chapter 4 Prometheus Unbound, Part I: Language, Music, and the Visionary Imagination, Jessica K. Quillin; Part 3 Lyrical Harmony: Shelleyan Poetic Form and the Sister Arts; Chapter 103 Prologue, Jessica K. Quillin; Chapter 5 Prometheus Unbound, Part II: Correspondences Between Music, Drama, and Poetic Form in Shelley’s Lyrical Drama, Jessica K. Quillin; Chapter 6 “[Are we not formed as notes of music are”: Musical Aesthetics, Love, and Politics in Shelley’s Lyrics, Jessica K. Quillin Appendix, Jessica K. Quillin;

Biography

Jessica K. Quillin is a researcher, writer, and entrepreneur. She received her PhD in English from the University of Cambridge and has published widely, including in The Oxford Companion to Shelley and in the Keats-Shelley Journal.