Through new readings of Shelley's verse, this book engages with the affective, phenomenological and ethical dimensions of shame, as it is made manifest by Shelley's textual strategies of reticence.
Through new readings of Shelley's verse, this book engages with the affective, phenomenological and ethical dimensions of shame, as it is made manifest by Shelley's textual strategies of reticence.
Merrilees Roberts is a teaching associate at Queen Mary, University of London, where she teaches mainly literary theory. She also completed her doctoral work on Percy Shelley at Queen Mary, examining reticence in Percy Shelley's poetry and philosophy.
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Introduction i Shelley's Shames ii Shame Theories iii Reticence iv Affect and Romanticism v Texts Chapter One: Reticent Impersonations: Shelley's Unhappy Consciousness i The Empty Subject ii Bad Faith iii Shame and Ideology iv Historicism v The Problems of Materialism Chapter Two: Alastor's Mute Poets i Shelley and Wordsworth ii Rejecting 'natural piety' iii The veilèd maid and the disgrace of the alternative iv The narrator as victim of his own constructions Chapter Three: Shame, Silence and Historicism in The Cenci i Beatrice's Casuistry ii Shame and De-humanisation iii Shame as Self-construction Chapter Four: Julian and Maddalo: What the 'cold world shall not know' i The Reticence of 'the cold world' and Shelley's Critique of Symbols ii The Maniac's Resistance and Byron's 'Prometheus' iii The Maniac's Performance of Shame iv Julian's Reserve Chapter Five: Metaphysical Sympathies i Sympathetic Poetics in A Defence of Poetry ii Transcending the Ego in Ode to the West Wind, Mont Blanc, Ode to Intellectual Beauty and Adonais Chapter Six: The Jane Poems: Love, Lyric and Life i Eroticism and the hollowness of the "Lyric I" ii Sensory Bad faith iii Beyond Denial Chapter Seven: The Triumph of Life: Pleasure versus process and the shame of self-knowledge i The Failure of Allegory ii Rousseau as the Subject-in-Shame iii Countering the 'cold glare' Conclusion
Introduction i Shelley's Shames ii Shame Theories iii Reticence iv Affect and Romanticism v Texts Chapter One: Reticent Impersonations: Shelley's Unhappy Consciousness i The Empty Subject ii Bad Faith iii Shame and Ideology iv Historicism v The Problems of Materialism Chapter Two: Alastor's Mute Poets i Shelley and Wordsworth ii Rejecting 'natural piety' iii The veilèd maid and the disgrace of the alternative iv The narrator as victim of his own constructions Chapter Three: Shame, Silence and Historicism in The Cenci i Beatrice's Casuistry ii Shame and De-humanisation iii Shame as Self-construction Chapter Four: Julian and Maddalo: What the 'cold world shall not know' i The Reticence of 'the cold world' and Shelley's Critique of Symbols ii The Maniac's Resistance and Byron's 'Prometheus' iii The Maniac's Performance of Shame iv Julian's Reserve Chapter Five: Metaphysical Sympathies i Sympathetic Poetics in A Defence of Poetry ii Transcending the Ego in Ode to the West Wind, Mont Blanc, Ode to Intellectual Beauty and Adonais Chapter Six: The Jane Poems: Love, Lyric and Life i Eroticism and the hollowness of the "Lyric I" ii Sensory Bad faith iii Beyond Denial Chapter Seven: The Triumph of Life: Pleasure versus process and the shame of self-knowledge i The Failure of Allegory ii Rousseau as the Subject-in-Shame iii Countering the 'cold glare' Conclusion
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