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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... young women : Shelley's own sisters and the beautiful cousin , Harriet Grove , to whom the young poet was engaged . These women emerge from the study at hand as compelling fig- ures , both in their own right and as they illuminate the ...
... young women : Shelley's own sisters and the beautiful cousin , Harriet Grove , to whom the young poet was engaged . These women emerge from the study at hand as compelling fig- ures , both in their own right and as they illuminate the ...
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... Shelley's depictions of fusion in favor of those sug- gesting relation , he ... Shelley's writings . The poet's psychic and artistic strategies for achieving such ... young poet well before Harriet's final break with him , it was from the ...
... Shelley's depictions of fusion in favor of those sug- gesting relation , he ... Shelley's writings . The poet's psychic and artistic strategies for achieving such ... young poet well before Harriet's final break with him , it was from the ...
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... Shelley has shown , the poet was steeped in Scripture . And he took very ... Shelley largely modeled his own struggle for self - renunciation on the Passion of ... young Shelley , this vital group consisted of his four younger sisters and ...
... Shelley has shown , the poet was steeped in Scripture . And he took very ... Shelley largely modeled his own struggle for self - renunciation on the Passion of ... young Shelley , this vital group consisted of his four younger sisters and ...
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... ( Young Shelley 4 ) . Holmes pursues Cameron's line of thought , locating this " rejection " in the Syon House period : " From a few stray remarks in letters from Oxford , and from passing references by his cousin Tom Med- win and his ...
... ( Young Shelley 4 ) . Holmes pursues Cameron's line of thought , locating this " rejection " in the Syon House period : " From a few stray remarks in letters from Oxford , and from passing references by his cousin Tom Med- win and his ...
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... 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 Septem- ber 1809 ...
... 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 Septem- ber 1809 ...
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