The Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe

The widespread and culturally significant impact of Percy Bysshe Shelley''s writings in Europe constitutes a particularly interesting case for a reception study because of the variety of responses they evoked. If radical readers cherished the ''red'' Shelley, others favoured the lyrical poet, whose work was, like Byron''s, anthologized and set to music. His major dramatic works, The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound , inspired numerous fin-de-siecle and expressionist dramatists and producers from Paris to Moscow. Shelley was read by, and influenced, the novelist Stendhal, the political theorist Engels, the Spanish symbolist Jimenez, and the Russian modernist poet Akhmatova. This exciting collection of essays by an international team of leading scholars considers translations, critical and biographical reviews, fictionalizations of his life, and other creative responses. It probes into transnational cross-currents to demonstrate the depth of Shelley''s impact on European culture since his death in 1822. It will be an indispensable research resource for academics, critics, and writers with interests in Romanticism and its legacies.>

About the author

Susanne Schmid has taught at the universities FU Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Princeton, Paderborn, Salford and Regensburg. She is the author of Shelley's German Afterlives 1814 - 2000 (Palgrave, 2007).Michael Rossington is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is one of the editors of The Poems of Shelley, Vol. 3 (Longman, 2009).

Product details

• Authors: Michael Rossington, Susanne Schmid, Susanne (Johannes Gutenberg University Schmid, Susanne Rossington Schmid
• Assisted by: Dr Michael (Newcastle University Rossington (Editor), Michael Rossington (Editor), Michael (Newcastle University Rossington (Editor), Susanne Schmid (Editor), Susanne (Johannes Gutenberg University Schmid (Editor), Elinor Shaffer (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2008
• EAN: 9780826495877
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-9587-7
• No. of pages: 460
• Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe; Athlone Critical Traditions Se; The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe; Athlone Critical Traditions Se
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies