The reception of P.B. Shelley in Europe / / edited by Susanne Schmid and Michael Rossington

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821989803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-87085-8; 9786612870859; 1-4411-0223-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (460 p.)
• Collana: Athlone critical traditions series ; ; v. 16
• Altri autori (Persone): SchmidSusanne <1964->; RossingtonMichael
• Disciplina: 821.7
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-364) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Timeline: European Reception of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Introduction; 1 The History of Shelley Editions in English; 2 Shelley 'fabriqué en France'; 3 Shelley's Afterlife in Italy: from 1822 to 1922; 4 Shelley's Afterlife in Italy: from 1922 to the Present; 5 The Reception of Shelley in Spain; 6 Shelley, Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War; 7 Shelley in Portugal: A Poet for Academics; 8 The Ineffectual Angel of Political Hijacking: Shelley in Romanian Culture; 9 An 'Unseen Presence': Shelley in Germany; 10 Shelley in the Nordic Countries: Would They Be Seeking Him if He Had Not Been Found?11 'Love for a Godhead due': Shelley in the Low Countries; 12 A Prophet of Love, a 'Moral Artist' or a Revolutionary?: Shelley in Czech Culture; 13 Shelley in Poland; 14 'A marvellously mild-tempered, gentle person': Shelley in Hungarian Culture; 15 Revolutionary Etudes: The Reception of Shelley in Russia; 16 Shelley's Heart of Hearts in Bulgaria; 17 'The Prophet of Noble Struggles': Shelley in Greece; 18 'I pant for the music which is divine': Shelley's Poetry and the Musical Imagination; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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-siècle and expressionist dramatists and producers from Paris to Moscow. Shelley was read by, and influenced, the novelist Stendhal, the political theorist Engels,