Percy Shelley for Our Times

Omar F. Miranda is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of San Francisco. He is the editor and author of several scholarly works on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literatures. His article “The Global Romantic Lyric” (The Wordsworth Circle, 2021) won the Bigger 6 Article of the Year award (2021). He is currently Vice President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America and is on The Byron Society of America's board of directors. Kate Singer is Mary Lyon Professor of Humanities at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Romantic Vacancy: The Poetics of Gender, Affect, and Radical Speculation (State University of New York Press, 2019); coeditor, with Ashley Cross and Suzanne L. Barnett, of Material Transgressions: Beyond Romantic Bodies, Genders, Things (Liverpool University Press, 2020); and founding coeditor of the Keats Letters Project (https://keatslettersproject.com/). She currently serves as President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America.

• Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Percy Shelley's involving poetics of relationality Omar F. Miranda and Kate Singer; 1. Shelley, treaty-making, and Indigenous poetry Nikki Hessell; 2. Waiting for the Revolution: age, debility, and disability in The Triumph of Life Fuson Wang; 3. 'A Chamæleonic Race': Shelley and the discourses of slavery Mathelinda Nabugodi; 4. Dream defenders and the inside songs Julie A. Carlson; 5. Radical suffering: Shelley's legacy in nonviolent revolution James Chandler; 6. Loathsome Sympathy: Shelley's The Cenci and the Problem of Empathy Alan Richardson; 7. Hopeless romanticism Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud; 8. Percy Shelley's sad exile Omar F. Miranda; 9. Shelley in the overgrowth Ross Wilson; 10. Creatrix witches, nonbinary creatures, and Shelleyan transmedia Kate Singer; 11. Action at a distance: communication and material entanglement in Queen Mab and The Mask of Anarchy Mary Fairclough; 12. Educating the imagination / defending Shelley defending Joel Faflak; Further reading bibliography; Index.

'A fresh, spirited collection that roundly demonstrates the contemporaneity and diversity of 'Shelley' – not by asserting that the master Poet contains multitudes, but by centering the unforeseen readers and writers who did, still, and will bend his restless verses to unforeseeable ends. 'Indianized,' disabled, unsexed, bewitched, rewilded, exiled, and intra-active, the Shelleyan corpus emerges anew, 'for our times,' even as the volume's many voices never cease to ask for whom it remains 'a book sealed.'' Amanda Jo Goldstein, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley