Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime

Offering a genuinely fresh set of perspectives on Shelley''s texts and contexts Cian Duffy argues that Shelley''s engagement with the British and French discourse on the sublime had a profound influence on his writing about political change in that age of revolutionary crisis. Examining Shelley''s extensive use of sublime imagery and metaphor Duffy offers not only a substantial reassessment of Shelley''s work but also a significant re-appraisal of the sublime''s role in the cultural history of Britain during the Romantic period as well as Shelley''s fascination with natural phenomena.