The Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe [Paperback]

The widespread and culturally significant impact of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings in Europe constitutes a particularly interesting case for a reception study because of the variety of responses they evoked. If radical readers cherished the 'red' Shelley, others favoured the lyrical poet, whose work was, like Byron's, anthologized and set to music. His major dramatic works,The CenciandPrometheus Unbound, inspired numerousfin-de-si?cleand expressionist dramatists and producers from Paris to Moscow. Shelley was read by, and influenced, the novelist Stendhal, the political theorist Engels, the Spanish symbolist Jim?nez, and the Russian modernist poet Akhmatova. This exciting collection of essays by an international team of leading scholars considers translations, critical and biographical reviews, fictionalizations of his life, and other creative responses. It probes into transnational cross-currents to demonstrate the depth of Shelley's impact on European culture since his death in 1822. It will be an indispensable research resource for academics, critics, and writers with interests in Romanticism and its legacies.

Susanne Schmid has taught at the universities of FU Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Princeton, Paderborn, Salford and Regensburg. She is the author ofShelley's German Afterlives 1814  2000(2007).

Michael Rossington is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is one of the editors of The Poems of Shelley, Vol. 3 (2009).

Series Editor's Preface:
Elinor Shaffer (University of London)
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Timeline: European Reception of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Susanne Schmid, Michael Rossington, Paul Barnaby and Lucia Kr?mer
Introduction: Michael Rossington (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and Susanne Schmid (University of Regensburg)
1. The History of Shelley Editions in English,lC1