Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, Volumes 9 and 10

by Percy B. Shelley, Donald H. Reiman (Editor), Doucet Devin Fischer (Editor)

Overview

This two-volume set presents and contextualizes major manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, now at the New York Public Library.

These volumes of Shelley and His Circle include a retrospective centered on the young Shelley, featuring unpublished letters from 1809–1810, a memorandum book he kept at Eton, his libelous verse-letter about his parents, and other manuscripts predating his Italian exile. This backward glance also includes the only known exchange between Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay, Godwin’s first letter to Malthus, and a partial draft of Mary Shelley’s Proserpine, emended by her husband. The chronology of the Italian period begins in July 1820 with the press copy of Byron’s verse drama Marino Faliero and continues through December, a period of political ferment when the letters of Leigh Hunt, the Shelleys, Byron, and Countess Teresa Guiccoli reflect preoccupation with Queen Caroline’s “trial” for adultery in Britain and brewing revolutions in Italy. Other highlights are two important eyewitness accounts: a young British officer’s reminiscences of Shelley in 1814 and Henry Reveley’s testimony about the Shelley Circle. Four substantial essays along with detailed commentaries provide context for the 100 manuscripts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674806146
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	10/18/2002
Edition description:	2 Volumes, Slipcase
Pages:	1310
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 11.00(h) x 3.50(d)

About the Author

Donald H. Reiman is Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Delaware.

Doucet Devin Fischer has served for many years as coeditor of the Shelley and His Circle publication project. She is also the editor of Mary Shelley’s The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck.

Table of Contents

VOLUME IX

List of Manuscripts and Essays

List of Illustrations and Maps

Foreword

Acknowledgments and Permissions

Editorial Procedures

Introduction

Retrospective: Miscellaneous Manuscripts and Essays,1790-Early 1820

Manuscripts and Essays, 1820

VOLUME X

List of Manuscripts and Essays

List of Illustrations and Maps

Manuscripts and Essays, 1820

Works of Reference, Abridged Title List

Index of Names