Shelley's Music

217 Pages·2009·2.75 MB·English

by  Paul A. Vatalaro

Shelley’s Music
Fantasy, Authority, and the Object Voice
Paul A. Vatalaro
Shelley’S MuSic
For Sandy
Shelley’s Music
Fantasy, Authority, and the Object Voice
PAul A. VAtAlArO
Merrimack College, USA
© Paul A. Vatalaro 2009
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Vatalaro, Paul A.
Shelley’s music: fantasy, authority, and the object voice.
1. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822 – criticism and interpretation. 2. Music in literature.
3. Self in literature.
i. title
821.7–dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vatalaro, Paul A.
Shelley’s music: fantasy, authority, and the object voice / Paul A. Vatalaro.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-6233-4 (alk. paper)
1. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822 – criticism and interpretation. i. title.
Pr5438.V28 2009
821’.7–dc22
2009013491
iSBN 978-0-7546-6233-4 (hbk)
iSBN 978-0-7546-9459-5 (ebk.V)
contents
List of Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgements ix
introduction 1
1 Subjectivity and the Self-Present Voice 21
2 Poetic Authority and “interpassivity” 43
3 Sounding the “real” 95
4 Power, Desire and Poetics 147
conclusion: Fantasy and renunciation 187
Bibliography 191
Index 197
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list of Abbreviations
CWWH The Complete Works of William Hazlitt. ed. P. P. howe. 21 vols.
New York: AMS P, 1967.
JMS The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814–1844. ed. Paula r. Feldman
and Diana Scott-Kilvert. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins
uP, 1987.
MWSL The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. ed. Betty t. Bennett. 3
vols. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1980–8.
MYR The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics. Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Fair Copy Manuscripts of Shelley’s Poems in European and
American Libraries. Vol. 8. New York and London: Garland
Publishing, 1997.
PBSL The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Frederick L. Jones. 2 vols.
Oxford: clarendon P, 1964.
SPP Shelley’s Poetry and Prose. ed. Donald h. reiman and Neil Fraistat.
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.
SPW Shelley’s Poetical Works. ed. thomas hutchinson. corr. G. M.
Mathews. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1970.
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Marilyn Gaull and Adam Potkay for their valuable advice
early on, and i remain grateful to William Keach, whose response to an early
iteration of this project proved helpful right to the end. i am greatly indebted to
Ann Donahue, my commissioning editor at Ashgate, for her unwavering support
and to my anonymous reader at Ashgate, who reviewed my manuscript and pointed
me in the right direction. Finally, I would like to thank Steven Scherwatzky, my
friend and colleague at Merrimack, who has shepherded this project right from the
very beginning.