Shelley's Living Artistry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shelley's Living Artistry write by Madeleine Callaghan. This book was released on 2017. Shelley's Living Artistry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of the poetry and drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley reads the letters and their biographical contexts to shed light on the poetry, tracing the ambiguous and shifting relationship between the poet's art and life. For Shelley, both life and art are transfigured by their relationship with one another where the 'poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one' but is equally bound up with and formed by the society in which he lives and the past that he inherits. Callaghan shows that the distinctiveness of Shelley's work comes to rest on its wrong-footing of any neat division of life and art. The dazzling intensity of Shelley's poetry and drama lies in its refusal to separate the twain as Shelley explores and finally explodes the boundaries between what is personal and what is poetic. Arguing that the critic, like the artist, cannot ignore the conditions of the poet's life, Callaghan reveals how Shelley's artistry reconfigures and redraws the actual in his poetry. The book shows how Shelley's poetic daring lies in troubling the distinction between poetry as aesthetic work hermetically sealed against life, and poetry as a record of the emotional life of the poet.
The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein
The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein write by Sharon Ruston. This book was released on 2021-10-22. The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, incorporate this debate into their work, and how much were they influenced by contemporary science, medicine and personal loss?This book is the first to compile the many attempts in science and medicine to account for life and death in Mary Shelley's time. It considers what her contemporaries thought of air, blood, sunlight, electricity and other elements believed to be most essential for living. Mary Shelley's (and her circle's) knowledge of science and medicine is carefully examined, alongside the work of key scientific and medical thinkers, including John Abernethy, James Curry, Humphry Davy, John Hunter, William Lawrence and Joseph Priestley. Frankenstein demonstrates what Mary Shelley knew of the advice given by medical practitioners for the recovery of persons drowned, hanged or strangled and explores the contemporary scientific basis behind Victor Frankenstein's idea that life and death were merely 'ideal bounds' he could transgress in the making of the Creature. Interweaving images of the manuscript, portraits, medical instruments and contemporary diagrams into her narrative, Sharon Ruston shows how this extraordinary tale is steeped in historical scientific and medical thought exploring the fascinating boundary between life and death.
MARY SHELLEY: MONSTER HUNTER Vol. 1
MARY SHELLEY: MONSTER HUNTER Vol. 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook MARY SHELLEY: MONSTER HUNTER Vol. 1 write by Adam Glass. This book was released on 2019-12-17. MARY SHELLEY: MONSTER HUNTER Vol. 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published as Mary Shelley Monster Hunter #1-5.
The Lady and Her Monsters
The Lady and Her Monsters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lady and Her Monsters write by Roseanne Montillo. This book was released on 2013-02-05. The Lady and Her Monsters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein. Montillo recounts how—at the intersection of the Romantic Age and the Industrial Revolution—Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein was inspired by actual scientists of the period: curious and daring iconoclasts who were obsessed with the inner workings of the human body and how it might be reanimated after death. With true-life tales of grave robbers, ghoulish experiments, and the ultimate in macabre research—human reanimation—The Lady and Her Monsters is a brilliant exploration of the creation of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s horror classic.
The Old China Book
The Old China Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Old China Book write by N. Hudson Moore. This book was released on 2008-10-01. The Old China Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history and study of old English china.
