272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Percy Bysshe Shelley joined the deluge of sightseers that poured onto the Continent after Napoleon's defeat in 1814, and over the next eight years Shelley followed major travelling trends, visiting Switzerland in 1816 and Italy from 1818. Shelley's Eye is the first study to address Shelley's participation in the travel culture of Post-Napoleonic Europe, and the first to consider Shelley as an... Read more
Contents: Introduction; 'The sun rises over France': post-Napoleonic travellers' Europe; 'Citizens of the world': dislocated vision in Alastor; 'The raptures of travellers': writing Mont Blanc; 'Relics of antiquity': Shelley's classical tour through Italy; 'The emblem of Italy': two-fold vision in Prometheus Unbound; 'Empire o'er the unborn world': Shelley's Hellas; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Benjamin Colbert is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
'Shelley's Eye is a responsible, informative analysis of the milieu that generated some of Shelley's most powerful poetry. It also immerses a reader in a world of books, places, and personalities that, after Colbert's astute analysis of them, will never, to adapt the final line of Alastor, be as they were.' Studies in Romanticism ’Colbert's command of his source material [...] is impressive... Shelley's Eye is a work of admirable breadth and contains much of interest... Colbert has unquestionably made a rewarding contribution to Shelley studies, further illuminating, in a confident and attractive prose, the extraordinary complexity of shelley's work.’ Romanticism ’Colbert's Shelley's Eye is a formidable though compact text. Meticulously documented, exhaustively researched, and thought-provoking, it is one of the first authoritative studies to address Shelley's travel writings in their own right, and with it Colbert makes an important and long-overdue contribution to Shelley studies.’ Keats-Shelley Journal
