Percy Bysshe Shelley : poet and revolutionary / Jacqueline Mulhallen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulhallen, Jacqueline, author.

Series:

Revolutionary lives.

Revolutionary lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822--Political and social views.

Poets, English--19th century--Biography.

Poets, English.

Political activists--Great Britain--Biography.

Political activists.

Local Subjects:

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2015.

Summary:

"This biography explores the foundation of Shelley's revolutionary politics--his anger at a system in which the rich lived luxuriously at the expense of the poor and oppressed, causing war, colonialism and suffering. An anti-monarchist and a forerunner of civil disobedience, his poetry was considered blasphemous and seditious, and was pirated by the radical press to reach new working class audiences. His revolutionary ideals were espoused by all those fighting for a more equal society, and his work inspired radical movements and thinkers including the Chartists, Marx and Gandhi. Today his words are still used, from Tiananmen Square to the anti-austerity struggles across Europe."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Shelley's family background and education : 1792-1811

The Lake District, Ireland and Devon : 1811-13

Tremadog, Queen Mab and the 'Hermit of Marlow' : 1813-18

Italy and Shelley's Annus Mirabilis : 1818-19

Satire and drama : 1819-22

The legacy of a revolutionary.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781783717033

1783717033

9781783717026

1783717025