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Shelley's Goddess

Maternity, Language, Subjectivity

By: Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi

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Shelley's Goddess

Maternity, Language, Subjectivity

By: Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi

The subject of Gelpi's new book is the importance of the mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelly's poetry and life. However, her book also uses Shelley as a touchstone by which to examine the rich historical and theoretical issues relevant to motherhood in the Romantic period. Gelpi offers a detailed account of the historical rise in attention paid to mothering, the changing cultural attitudes towards the role of the mother, and the resulting effect on the nature of family life. She further discusses the psychoanalytic, Marxist, and developmental approaches to the mother/infant relationship, particularly to the connection each makes between that relationship and the acquisition of language. By combining psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and feminist theory with extensive biographical material on Shelley and information on the position of mothers in England after 1790, Gelpi offers an important reassessment of Shelley's avowed feminism and the failure of his utopian vision.

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0195360826

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Progress & Identity in the Plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907

By: Barbara A. Suess

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Progress & Identity in the Plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907

By: Barbara A. Suess

Progress and Identity in the Poems of W. B. Yeats explores the ways in which Yeats's plays offer an alternative form of progress via a philosophical system of opposites: Always seeking the opposite, the nature of which changes as we change, we continually augment our personalities, and ultimately improve society, with the inclusion of the Other. This system, which eventually became Yeats's doctrine of the mask, provided his contemporaries with a method of changing what science, Platonism, and Victorian bourgeois ideologies claimed to be inescapable qualities of self. Progress and Identityn relocates Yeats's literary, social, and political relevance from his essentializing cultural nationalism to his later, more broad-minded definitions of progress.

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Routledge

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1135454078

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9781135454074

Shelley's Goddess

Maternity, Language, Subjectivity

By: Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi

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Maternity, Language, Subjectivity

By: Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi

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Shelley's Goddess

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Progress & Identity in the Plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907

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