{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-percy-bysshe-shelley-9780198806424","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley \u003c\/em\u003etakes stock of current developments in the study of a major Romantic poet and prose-writer, and seeks to advance Shelley studies in new directions. It consists of forty-two chapters written by an international cast of established and emerging scholar-critics. This Handbook is divided into five thematic sections: Biography and Relationships; Prose; Poetry; Cultures, Traditions, Influences; and Afterlives. The first section reappraises Shelley's life and relationships, including those with his publishers through whom he sought to reach an audience for the 'Ashes and sparks' of his thought, and with women, creative collaborators as well as muse-figures. The second section gives his under-investigated prose works detailed attention, bringing multiple perspectives to bear on his conceptual positions, and demonstrating the range of his achievement in prose works from novels to political and poetic treatises. The third section explores Shelley's creativity and gift as a poet, emphasizing his capacity to excel in many different poetic genres. The fourth section looks at Shelley's response to past and present literary cultures, both English and international, and at his immersion in science, music, theatre, the visual arts, and travel. The fifth section concludes the volume by analysing Shelley's literary and cultural afterlife, from his influence on Victorians and Moderns, to his status as the exemplary poet for Deconstruction. Packed with stimulating insights and readings, \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley\u003c\/em\u003e brings out the relevance to Shelley's own work of his dictum that 'All high poetry is infinite' .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael O'Neill, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English, Durham University\u003c\/em\u003e, Anthony Howe, \u003cem\u003eReader and Director of Graduate Research, School of English, Birmingham City University\u003c\/em\u003e, Madeleine Callaghan, \u003cem\u003eLecturer in Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael O'Neill is a well-known critic of poetry, and has written monographs on Shelley (1989), \u003cem\u003eRomanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem\u003c\/em\u003e (1997), and \u003cem\u003eThe All-Sustaining Air\u003c\/em\u003e (2007). He edited \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge History of English Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), and has also co-edited (with Madeleine Callaghan) \u003cem\u003eTwentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), and a much-praised anthology of Romantic poetry with detailed comments on poetic form (2007), both for Blackwell. He has published two collections of poems, and received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets in 1990. His work has been much praised by many critics for its sensitivity to poetry and its ability to find an answerable language for poetic effects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnthony Howe has taught at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities and is currently Reader and Director of Graduate Research at Birmingham City University. He has published essays on Byron and Shelley and is currently finishing a monograph entitled \u003cem\u003eByron and the Forms of Thought\u003c\/em\u003e for Liverpool University Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMadeleine Callaghan is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her research specialty is the poetry of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Yeats, and she also has research interests in post-war British and Irish poetry. She is the co-editor (with Michael O'Neill) of \u003cem\u003eTwentieth Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844097184018,"sku":"9780198806424","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ca9df3d4-69b0-4f05-baaf-7a97f4fa2ff9.jpg?v=1737310807","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-percy-bysshe-shelley-9780198806424","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}