Shelley's Mirrors of Love: Narcissism, Sacrifice, and SororitySUNY Press, 01.01.1999 - 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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Inhalt
PREFACE | ix |
TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS | xiii |
THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF AND LOVES TRANSFORMING PRESENCE | 1 |
SHELLEY CHRIST AND NARCISSUS | 11 |
SHELLEYAN DOPPELGANGER LOATHSOME SYMPATHYINDOMITABLE SELFHOOD | 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 Androgyny 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 Gelpi gender Gothic Gothic novel Harriet Grove Harriet Westbrook hero Hogg's Holmes Ianthe ideal illuminates imaginatively Irvyne Jesus Julia Jupiter kind Kohut Laon and Cythna Laon's letter to Hogg ley's linked lover lyric male 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 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 woman writes Young Shelley Zastrozzi