Shelley's Satire

by Steven E. Jones and Steven E. Jones

Book Overview

Jones challenges traditional images of Percy Bysshe Shelley in this first book-length analysis of his major satiric works. Bringing to bear genre theory and a New Historical frame of reference, Jones places Shelley's satires in their broad context of popular, political, and material culture. Jones argues that Shelley's satiric poems express an important countervoice within Shelley's work as well as within Romanticism as a whole. These ironic, public,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875801862
• ISBN13: 9780875801865
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher