This Longman Cultural Edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings emphasizes Shelley as political thinker and activist. It situates his writings within the context of contemporary social, cultural, political and economic ferment and illustrates some of the ways in which Shelley set out as a writer to intervene actively in the course of public affairs in Regency and post-Regency Britain. In addition to many familiar texts, in both poetry and prose, this edition also contains less familiar works that help shed light on the political Shelley.
The edition includes a variety of writings and visual materials from Shelley's contemporaries that help to illuminate the nature and scope of his work and to document both how it interacts with other literary production of the period and how it was viewed by some of Shelley's contemporaries.
Longman/Pearson Publishers, 2009