1st Edition
Shelley's Radical Stages Performance and Cultural Memory in the Post-Napoleonic Era
By Dana Van Kooy
Copyright 2016
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romanticism in which history is 'staged'. Reading Shelley's dramas as a series of radical stages - historical reenactments and theatrical reproductions - Van Kooy highlights the cultural significance of the drama and the theatre in shaping and contesting... Read more
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Biography
Dana Van Kooy is an Assistant Professor of Transnational Literature, Literary Theory and Culture in the Humanities Department at Michigan Technological University, USA.
"Van Kooy’s bold treatment of Shelley’s dramatic imagination offers new ways to think about the poet’s relationship to both popular culture and radical politics; it also raises questions about the extent of his desire (and capacity) to embrace the more demotic forms of illegitimate theater."
- Philip Connell, Selwyn College, Cambridge, UK in European Romantic Review (2017)
