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Shelley's Textual Seductions: Plotting Utopia in the Erotic and Political Works - RLE: Percy Shelley Lyndon Gladden, Samuel (Samuel Lyndon Gladden, Ph.D. Associate Dean and Professor of Literature. School of Human Sciences and Humanities. University of Houston-Clear Lake) 1st edition
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Shelley's Textual Seductions: Plotting Utopia in the Erotic and Political Works - RLE: Percy Shelley
Lyndon Gladden, Samuel (Samuel Lyndon Gladden, Ph.D. Associate Dean and Professor of Literature. School of Human Sciences and Humanities. University of Houston-Clear Lake)
First published in 2002. This book surveys how and to what effect Shelley uses erotic narratives to mask political rhetoric within his attempts to describe and bring forth utopia. Posing erotic relationships as both an exemplar of the inequities of power and a paradigm for alternative social orders that dismantle oppressive structures, it argues Shelley?s work imagines a space where the rigidity of tyranny succumbs to the liberation of ecstatic union. From the Romantics to the Aesthetes, it argues that this model contributed to a counter-tradition in British literature which situates the erotic as a trope for political discourse. This work will be of interest to students of literature.
352 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 22, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138640573 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 372 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 690 g |
| Language | English |
