Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands : : Shelley's Poetic Development and Romantic Geography / / Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey.
The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley had a complicated relationship with the British Empire and the culture of colonialism. Considered politically radical and scandalous in Britain, Shelley lived in self-imposed exile and set much of his writing in foreign places. In Strange Truths in Undisc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Shelley Texts
- Introduction
- 1. Queen Mab: The Female Dreamers and a Pathless Wilderness
- 2. 'Alastor': A Solitary Quester and a New Eastern Geography
- 3. 'Mont Blanc': The Questioning Traveller and a Visionary Geography of Chamonix
- 4. Prometheus Unbound: The Eastern and Western Lovers on the Highest Mountain
- 5. 'The Witch of Atlas': The Hybrid Explorer and Shelley's Joyous Challenge
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index