Written when Shelley was not yet 20, these novels were published at the height of popularity for Gothic fiction and are filled with the trappings of the genre. The heroes and heroines of these novels are psychologically complex figures caught up in a tragedy of vengeance and dehumanization.

Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Behrendt, Stephen C.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Genre Fiction

Oxford University Press

Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This compelling study recovers the lost lives and poems of British women poets of the Romantic era. Stephen C. Behrendt reveals the range and diversity of their writings, offering new perspectives on the work of dozens of women whose poetry has long been ignored or marginalized in traditional literary history. British Romanticism was once thought of as a cultural movement defined by a small group of male poets. This book grants women poets their proper place in the literary tradition of the time. In an approach ripe for classroom teaching, Behrendt first reviews the subject thematically, exploring the ways in which the poems addressed both public concerns and private experiences. He next examines the use of particular genres, including the sonnet and various other long and short forms. In the concluding chapters, Behrendt explores the impact of national identity, providing the first extensive study of Romantic-era poetry by women from Scotland and Ireland. In recovering the lives and work of these women, Behrendt reveals their active participation within the rich cultural community of writers and readers throughout the British Isles. This study will be a key resource for scholars, teachers, and students in British literary studies, women’s studies, and cultural history.

British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community

History & Criticism

Johns Hopkins University Press

William Blake thought that John Milton had been betrayed by both his commentators and his illustrators, and he set out to recover Milton's vision, particularly in Paradise Lost, from the misguided academic and Augustan misinterpretation to which it had been subjected.The Moment of Explosion: Blake and the Illustration of Milton is the first detailed. analysis of all of Blake's illustrations for Milton's poetry. Blake explicitly believed he was correcting errors that Milton wanted corrected, and he felt that his illustration was interpretive criticism in its highest sense, a re-vision that would broadcast Milton's revolutionary ethic afresh. Stephen C. Behrendt blends a close reading of Blake and Milton with meticulous and provocative examination of the illustrations of Blake, his predecessors, and his contemporaries. The focus on visual art as criticism establishes the book as a major essay on the interaction of the arts within and across cultural periods. Fifty-four black-and-white illustrations document that radical, Romantic assault by Blake on tradition in the name of tradition. The highlight of the book is Blake's two sets of Paradise Lost illustrations, reproduced here in twenty-four color plates—Blake's final statements on Paradise Lost and the culmination of his aesthetic and critical development.This beautiful book presents a wealth of illustration previously scattered or inaccessible. It will be of major interest to students of Blake, Milton, Romanticism, art history, and the history of ideas.

The Moment of Explosion: Blake and the Illustration of Milton

British & Irish

Univ of Nebraska Pr

Percy Bysshe Shelley Criticism and Interpretation

Shelley and His Audiences

University Of Nebraska Press

In Instruments of the Bones, Stephen C. Behrendt attends to the details of his immediate world with a keen, focused, and sensitive eye. His is a natural world that includes man - a living world that includes death. Behrendt's meditative poems unfold quickly in the "Here, now...this glaring spot of time"; but their roots reach deeply into the past, and their implications stretch indeterminately into the future. Book jacket.

Instruments of the Bones

Poetry

Mid List Pr

A Step In The Dark is Stephen Behrendt's second volume of poetry. In the poem called "Alone in London" he writes: "Love alone across the Atlantic is harder, /but love no less if anything it's more/Everything reminds, all that we should see together: the geese at Kew, / the heron in the tree, squawking as it springs, /the horses in Hyde Park, the umbrellas/at Brighton, flapping tn cool breeze / At night I read till after midnight, /the breeze filling my small room/ through the sheers, switch off my light, / turn to the wall in my narrow bed, /and sleep a deep and dreamless sleep/ until the morning light reminds me/how I am still alone, and Incomplete". Hilda Raz writes that Behrendt's poetry is "Passionate and witty... recollected in tranquillity, presented with the small measure of detachment that Wordsworth recommends.

A Step in the Dark: Poems

History: Poems

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Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte

British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community

The Moment of Explosion: Blake and the Illustration of Milton

Shelley and His Audiences

Instruments of the Bones

A Step in the Dark: Poems

History: Poems

British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community