Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley: Nietzschean Subjectivity and Genre (The Nineteenth Century Series) - Hardcover

Sandy, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754635791 ISBN 13: 9780754635796

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Beginning with a reassessment of contemporary romantic studies, this book provides a modern critical comparison of Keats and Shelley. The study offers detailed close readings of a variety of literary genres (including the romance, lyric, elegy and literary fragment) adopted by Keats and Shelley to explore their poetic treatment of self and form. The poetic careers of Keats and Shelley embrace a tragic affirmation of those darker elements latent in the earlier writings to meditate on their own posthumous reception and reputation. Fresh readings of Keats and Shelley show how they conceive of the self as fictional and anticipate Nietzsche's modern theories of subjectivity. Nietzsche's conception of the subject as a site of conflicting fictions usefully measures this emergent sense of poetic self and form in Keats and Shelley. This Nietzschean perspective enriches our appreciation of the considerable artistic achievement of these two significant second-generation romantic poets.

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Mark Sandy is Lecturer in English at The Department of English Studies, University of Durham, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754635791
• ISBN 13: 9780754635796
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160