Shelley's Textual Seductions

Samuel Lyndon Gladden

List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter I Introduction Situating the Erotic: The Places and Spaces of Excess; Part One: The Problem; Chapter II Shelley’s Agenda Writ Large: Reconsidering Œdipus Tyrannus: or, Swellfoot the Tyrant Tyranny Liberty Language Sexual Transgression; Chapter III Tyranny and Liberation, or Rigidity and Ooziness: Physical and Psychological Landscapes in the Cenci and Julian and Maddalo Love, Landscape, and Revolution The Vanishing Points of Patriarchy Private and Public, Family and Society Torture, Retaliation, and Eroticism The Feminine Community Landscape, Psychology, and Unconnectedess Somatic Inscription (Body, Text, Madness) Vanishings; Part Two: The Solution; Chapter IV Revolutionary Landscapes and the Politics of Love: Epipsychidion as Erotic Cartography Love The Other The Female and the Feminine Androgyny Rejection of the Imaginary "…honeyed words betray" Reconfiguration; Chapter V Mapping the Ideal: Pleasure and Displacement in Laon and Cynthia and Prometheus Unbound Pedagogy Eroticism Landscape and Liminality Prometheus as Redeemer Language, Love and Revolution Landscape and Utopia; Chapter VI Conclusion Re-tracing Seduction: The Influence of Shelley on Nineteenth Century British Culture Shelley’s Contemporaries The Pre-Raphaelites The Aesthetes; References; Index