The Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe

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 Cenci and Prometheus Unbound, inspired numerous fin-de-siècle and expressionist dramatists and producers from Paris to Moscow. Shelley was read by, and influenced, the novelist Stendhal, the political theorist Engels, the Spanish symbolist Jiménez, 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 of Shelley'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 Krämer
Introduction: Michael Rossington (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and Susanne Schmid (University of Regensburg)
1. The History of Shelley Editions in English, Stephen C. Behrendt (University of Nebraska)
2. Shelley 'fabriqué en France', Ann T. Gardiner
3.Shelley 's Afterlife in Italy: from 1822 to 1922, Lilla Maria Crisafulli (University of Bologna)
4. Shelley's afterlife in Italy: from 1922 to the present day, Laura Bandiera (University of Parma)
5. The Reception of Shelley in Spain, Beatriz González (University of Castilla-La Mancha) and Santiago Rodríguez (University of Valladolid) with Richard A. Cardwell (University of Nottingham)
6. Shelley, Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War, Bill Phillips (University of Barcelona)
7. Shelley in Portugal: a Poet for Academics, Jorge Bastos da Silva (University of Porto)
8. The Ineffectual Angel of Political Hijacking: Shelley in Romanian Culture, Mihaelia Anghelescu Irimia (University of Bucharest)
9. An 'Unseen Presence': Shelley in Germany, Susanne Schmid (University of Regensburg)
10. Shelley in the Nordic Countries: Would They Be Seeking Him if He Had Not Been Found?, Karsten Engelberg (Copenhagen University)
11. 'Love for a Godhead due': Shelley in the Low Countries, Kris Steyaert (University of Liège)
12. A Prophet of Love, a 'Moral Artist' or a Revolutionary?: Shelley in Czech Culture, Martin Procházka (Charles University, Prague)
13. Shelley in Poland, Monika Coghen (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)
14. 'A marvelously mild-tempered, gentle person': Shelley in Hungarian culture, István Rácz (University of Debrecen)
15. Revolutionary Etudes: The Reception of Shelley in Russia, Rachel Polonsky
16. Shelley's Heart of Hearts in Bulgaria, Vitana Kostadinova (University of Plovdiv)
17. 'The Prophet of Noble Struggles': Shelley in Greece, Maria Schoina (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
18. 'I pant for the music which is divine': Shelley's Poetry and the Musical Imagination, Jeremy Dibble (Durham University)
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