Shelley's Mirrors of Love: Narcissism, Sacrifice, and SororityState University of New York Press, 29.10.1998 - 311 Seiten Shelley's Mirrors of Love confronts the myths and realities of Shelleyan narcissism and discovers an artist fiercely engaged with problems of (gender) identity, self-idolatry, and the nature of love itself. Rather than capitulating to what he called "the principle of Self," Shelley obsessively explored its temptations, its dangers, and its antidotes. The book is largely psychobiographical in approach, working with the theories of Heinz Kohut and Jessica Benjamin, among others, as it closely analyzes Shelley's fiction, poetry, and letters. The book offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the poet's fluid gender identity, finding strong evidence of an "imaginative transsexualism" that allowed him to identify with real and imagined "sister-spirits" who exemplified the powers of love and sympathy, the greatest of Shelleyan ideals. The latter force receives particular attention as the study turns to scientific theories of Shelley's day, theories that helped the poet envision how the energy of electricity, sympathy, and sexuality converge to create the kind of erotically interpenetrating universe we see at the close of Prometheus Unbound. |
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... Field Place , perhaps glimpsed in “ On Love ” as that “ Paradise which pain and sorrow and evil dare not over- leap . " The letters , novels , and poems that Shelley wrote before his final expul- sion from his Eden reveal how essential ...
... Field Place , perhaps glimpsed in “ On Love ” as that “ Paradise which pain and sorrow and evil dare not over- leap . " The letters , novels , and poems that Shelley wrote before his final expul- sion from his Eden reveal how essential ...
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... Field Place , its sororal ambience and the texts it inspired , will be the center but not the con- fines of the book . Because they emanate directly from the critical period of Shelley's ado- lescence , when Shelley lost his place ...
... Field Place , its sororal ambience and the texts it inspired , will be the center but not the con- fines of the book . Because they emanate directly from the critical period of Shelley's ado- lescence , when Shelley lost his place ...
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... Field Place coterie of cousin and sisters , these radi- ant figures help Shelley's heroes to defuse ( their own ) masculine , Self - serv- ing impulses and , most important , to achieve a rather dramatic sexual crossover . Through a ...
... Field Place coterie of cousin and sisters , these radi- ant figures help Shelley's heroes to defuse ( their own ) masculine , Self - serv- ing impulses and , most important , to achieve a rather dramatic sexual crossover . Through a ...
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... Field Place of the poet's boyhood , where young Percy harnessed the wondrous power of electricity to create and join a scin- tillating band of sister - spirits , an archetypal circle Introduction 9.
... Field Place of the poet's boyhood , where young Percy harnessed the wondrous power of electricity to create and join a scin- tillating band of sister - spirits , an archetypal circle Introduction 9.
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... Field Place , the Shelley home ( Cameron , Young Shelley , 71 ) . Percy's personal vendetta against Christ himself , though , seemed to begin only when his and Harriet's parents started interfering with the cousins ' relationship in ...
... Field Place , the Shelley home ( Cameron , Young Shelley , 71 ) . Percy's personal vendetta against Christ himself , though , seemed to begin only when his and Harriet's parents started interfering with the cousins ' relationship in ...
Inhalt
11 | |
Loathsome SympathyIndomitable | 45 |
A Band of SisterSpirits | 79 |
Sex Sympathy and Science | 125 |
The Unreserve of Mingled Being | 167 |
Notes | 197 |
Works Cited | 295 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Ahasuerus Alastor Asia beautiful become beloved Cameron Canto Cenci Christ cousin Crook and Guiton crucial death Demogorgon desire Doppelgänger double dream Earth electricity Elizabeth Hitchener embody Epipsychidion Epithalamium erotic Esdaile essay female feminine feminized Field Place figure final Gelpi gender Gothic Gothic novel Harriet Grove Harriet Westbrook hero Hogg's Ianthe ideal illuminates imaginatively Irvyne Jesus Julia Jupiter kind Kohut Laon and Cythna Laon's letter to Hogg ley's linked lover lyric male martyr Mary Godwin Mary Shelley masculine maternal Matilda mingled mirror mother narcissism narcissistic Notopoulos novel Oceanides Othman Pandemian Panthea Paradise passage passion Percy Percy's poem poem's poet poet's Prometheus Unbound protagonist Queen Mab role romantic Selfhood selfishness selfless selfobject sense sexual Shel Shelley's Goddess Shelley's Major Verse Shelleyan sister sister-spirit sisterly soul Sperry spirit suggests sympathetic Syon House Ulmer Uranian Verezzi vision Wandering Jew writes Young Shelley Zastrozzi