19th Century
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Alternative Social Model
Author_Samuel Lyndon Gladden
Bare Breasted Woman
Beardsley's Drawings
Beardsley’s Drawings
Blackwood's Attacks
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Cockney School
Dorian Gray
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Erotic Engagements
Erotic Narratives
Erotic Utopia
Green Bag
Literature
OED's Definition
OED’s Definition
Petit Trianon
Plot Utopia
Politics
Prometheus Unbound
Purple East
Queen Caroline Affair
Romantic
Shelley
Shelley's Description
Shelley's Fantasy
Shelley's Model
Shelley's Play
Shelley's Satire
Shelley's Works
Shelley’s Description
Shelley’s Fantasy
Shelley’s Play
Shelley’s Satire
Shelley’s Works
Swinish Multitude
Textual Seduction
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138640542
- Weight: 850g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 2002. This book surveys how and to what effect Shelley uses erotic narratives to mask political rhetoric within his attempts to describe and bring forth utopia. Posing erotic relationships as both an exemplar of the inequities of power and a paradigm for alternative social orders that dismantle oppressive structures, it argues Shelley’s work imagines a space where the rigidity of tyranny succumbs to the liberation of ecstatic union. From the Romantics to the Aesthetes, it argues that this model contributed to a counter-tradition in British literature which situates the erotic as a trope for political discourse. This work will be of interest to students of literature.
