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Free Download The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination by Eileen M. Hunt
English | April 16, 2024 | ISBN: 0812254023 | 224 pages | PDF | 23 Mb
Beyond her most famous creation―the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein’s Creature―Mary Shelley’s most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her lesser-known novel about the near-extinction of the human species through war, disease, and corruption. This novel, The Last Man (1826), gives us the iconic image of a heroic survivor who narrates the history of an apocalyptic disaster in order to save humanity―if not as a species, then at least as the practice of compassion or humaneness. In visual and musical arts from 1826 to the present, this postapocalyptic figure has transmogrified from the "last man" into the globally familiar filmic images of the "invisible man" and the "final girl."

Free Download Shelley’s Poetry: The Divided Self By Simon Haines
1997 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0333597079 | PDF | 14 MB
Shelley’s detractors since Hazlitt have noticed a division in the ‘self’ of his poems. A central reasoning core fears the passions surrounding it and distrusts the language expressing it. A few of his admirers offer an alternative view of the poems as symbolical pointers to a non-linguistic reality transcending passion; most miss the point, justifying their admiration by referring to the poems’ systems of thought. This reading of Shelley’s major poems and critical prose finds the adverse case more convincing.

Free Download The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination by Eileen M. Hunt
English | April 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 0812254023 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 19.94 MB
Beyond her most famous creation-the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein’s Creature-Mary Shelley’s most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her lesser-known novel about the near-extinction of the human species through war, disease, and corruption. This novel, The Last Man (1826), gives us the iconic image of a heroic survivor who narrates the history of an apocalyptic disaster in order to save humanity-if not as a species, then at least as the practice of compassion or humaneness. In visual and musical arts from 1826 to the present, this postapocalyptic figure has transmogrified from the "last man" into the globally familiar filmic images of the "invisible man" and the "final girl."

Free Download Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism By Jennifer Wallace
1997 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0333655699 | PDF | 17 MB
Traditionally Hellenism is seen as the uncontroversial and beneficial influence of Greece upon later culture. Drawing upon new ideas from culture and gender theory, Jennifer Wallace rethinks the nature of classical influence and finds that the relationship between the modern west and Greece is one of anxiety, fascination and resistance. Shelley’s protean and radical writing questions and illuminates the contemporary Romantic understanding of Greece. This book will appeal to students of Romantic Literature, as well as to those interested in the classical tradition.

Free Download Nicholas Meihuizen, "Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats: Beyond the Human"
English | ISBN: 152757752X | 2024 | 467 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book offers detailed readings of relevant works by Blake, Shelley and Keats, to bring together what is loosely termed as Hermetic tradition, British Romantic poetry and responses to the present crises regarding our life on the planet, including those linked to the notion of posthumanism. This conjunction of forces, so to speak, points beyond the boundaries erected by general sociological complacency and the acceptance of humankind as the centre of existence on Earth, to affirm the value of the non-human world and the possibilities inherent in an awareness of its subtler manifestations. Although the idea of spiritual agency might stretch the bounds of credulity, for centuries the inspired imagination has been considered daemonic; that is, it brings to artists and poets (and certain scientists, indeed) a sense of heightened consciousness, seemingly from beyond the self. Whatever causality may be at play here, it is clear that instances of an exalted outlook on life exist in abundance in the poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats. The present book explores them and their implications.

Free Download Nicholas Meihuizen, "Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats: Beyond the Human"
English | ISBN: 152757752X | 2024 | 467 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book offers detailed readings of relevant works by Blake, Shelley and Keats, to bring together what is loosely termed as Hermetic tradition, British Romantic poetry and responses to the present crises regarding our life on the planet, including those linked to the notion of posthumanism. This conjunction of forces, so to speak, points beyond the boundaries erected by general sociological complacency and the acceptance of humankind as the centre of existence on Earth, to affirm the value of the non-human world and the possibilities inherent in an awareness of its subtler manifestations. Although the idea of spiritual agency might stretch the bounds of credulity, for centuries the inspired imagination has been considered daemonic; that is, it brings to artists and poets (and certain scientists, indeed) a sense of heightened consciousness, seemingly from beyond the self. Whatever causality may be at play here, it is clear that instances of an exalted outlook on life exist in abundance in the poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats. The present book explores them and their implications.

Free Download A Mary Shelley Encyclopedia by Lucy Morrison, Staci L. Stone
English | 2003 | ISBN: 031330159X | 560 Pages | PDF | 16.6 MB
Frankenstein is one of the most popular classroom texts in high school and college, and Shelley’s other works are attracting renewed attention.

Free Download Jacqueline Mulhallen, "Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary (Revolutionary Lives)"
English | 2015 | pages: 193 | ISBN: 074533461X, 0745334628 | PDF | 9,0 mb
Today, Percy Bysshe Shelley is an emblem of the Romantic movement and one of the lights of English culture-his poems memorized by schoolchildren, his life honored with a memorial in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner. That wasn’t always the case, however. In his own day, Shelley was widely loathed, seen as an immoral atheist and a traitor to his class for his revolutionary politics. His work was damned as well, receiving scathing reviews rooted as much in disapproval of his politics and personal life as in the verse itself. That’s the Shelley that Jacqueline Mulhallen brings to life in this accessible, political biography: the Shelley who, though writing when the working class was in its infancy, clearly grasped-and wanted to change-the system of oppression under which laborers and women lived. The revolutionary Shelley, Mulhallen shows, has long served as an inspiration to figures from Karl Marx to W. B. Yeats to the poets and writers of today, and for popular movements like the Chartists and the suffragettes, even as his public image and poetry became part of the establishment.