The Shelleys and the Brownings

Textual Re-Imaginings and the Question of Influence

Rieko Suzuki (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2022
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-80085-647-9 (ISBN)

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This book is about the intertextual relationships between the works of the Shelleys and the Brownings. While a lot of research has been done on the relationship between Percy Bysshe Shelley and Robert Browning, virtually nothing has been said about the links between Mary Shelley and Robert Browning, and very little on the connections between the Shelleys and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Rieko Suzuki seeks to address this blind spot by focusing on three areas in particular: firstly, the way that Browning’s later poems reflect back on and re-engage with Shelley’s work; secondly, Mary Shelley’s influence on Browning’s early poems; and thirdly, Shelley’s presence in and influence on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s writing. In mapping out the various ways in which texts relate to other texts, the book also identifies a number of important thematic threads that run throughout the work of all four writers. These include theories of history and historical consciousness, providing a further dimension to the question of ‘influence’. They also include ideas about exile, gender, liberal politics and cultural heritage, central to almost all the texts discussed here, as the Shelleys and the Brownings, in different ways and in varying contexts, tried to negotiate the possibility of a more tolerant and resilient social, political and cultural environment.

Rieko Suzuki is Associate Professor at Waseda University.

Introduction1. Frankenstein and Paracelsus2. Valperga and Sordello3. The Shelleys and Browning on Art, Aesthetics and Poetics4. The Cenci and The Ring and the Book5. The Triumph of Life and Fifine at the Fair6. Elizabeth Barrett and ShelleyCoda

Erscheinungsdatum	22.02.2022
Reihe/Serie	English Association Monographs: English at the Interface ; 9
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80085-647-4 / 1800856474
ISBN-13	978-1-80085-647-9 / 9781800856479
Zustand	Neuware