Beschreibung:
Nancy Goslee is Professor of English Emerita at the University of Tennessee.
First full-length study of Shelley's remarkable notebooks and the visual and textual imagination they reveal.
1. Introduction: text and figure; 2. Mab's metamorphoses; 3. 'Hymn to intellectual beauty': visual texts, invisible figure; 4. 'Clear elemental shapes': textual and cultural origins for liberty in the Laon and Cythna notebooks; 5. Anarchy's textual progress: representing liberty; 6. Pursuing revision in Shelley's 'Ode to Liberty'; 7. Dispersoning Emily: drafting as plot in Epipsychidion; 8. 'Compelling/All new successions': death and the poet's figurations in Adonais; 9. The Triumph of Life: figure, history, and inscription.