Merrilees Roberts is a teaching associate at Queen Mary, University of London, where she teaches mainly literary theory. She also completed her doctoral work on Percy Shelley at Queen Mary, examining reticence in Percy Shelley’s poetry and philosophy.

• Introductioni Shelley’s Shamesii Shame Theoriesiii Reticenceiv Affect and Romanticismv TextsChapter One: Reticent Impersonations: Shelley’s Unhappy Consciousness i The Empty Subjectii Bad Faithiii Shame and Ideologyiv Historicismv The Problems of MaterialismChapter Two: Alastor’s Mute Poetsi Shelley and Wordsworthii Rejecting ‘natural piety’iii The veilèd maid and the disgrace of the alternativeiv The narrator as victim of his own constructionsChapter Three: Shame, Silence and Historicism in The Cencii Beatrice’s Casuistryii Shame and De-humanisationiii Shame as Self-constructionChapter Four: Julian and Maddalo: What the ‘cold world shall not know’i The Reticence of ‘the cold world’ and Shelley’s Critique of Symbolsii The Maniac’s Resistance and Byron’s ‘Prometheus’ iii The Maniac’s Performance of Shameiv Julian’s ReserveChapter Five: Metaphysical Sympathiesi Sympathetic Poetics in A Defence of Poetryii Transcending the Ego in Ode to the West Wind, Mont Blanc, Ode to Intellectual Beauty and AdonaisChapter Six: The Jane Poems: Love, Lyric and Lifei Eroticism and the hollowness of the "Lyric I"ii Sensory Bad faithiii Beyond DenialChapter Seven: The Triumph of Life: Pleasure versus process and the shame of self-knowledgei The Failure of Allegoryii Rousseau as the Subject-in-Shameiii Countering the ‘cold glare’Conclusion

Merrilees Roberts is a teaching associate at Queen Mary, University of London, where she teaches mainly literary theory. She also completed her doctoral work on Percy Shelley at Queen Mary, examining reticence in Percy Shelley’s poetry and philosophy.

• Introductioni Shelley’s Shamesii Shame Theoriesiii Reticenceiv Affect and Romanticismv TextsChapter One: Reticent Impersonations: Shelley’s Unhappy Consciousness i The Empty Subjectii Bad Faithiii Shame and Ideologyiv Historicismv The Problems of MaterialismChapter Two: Alastor’s Mute Poetsi Shelley and Wordsworthii Rejecting ‘natural piety’iii The veilèd maid and the disgrace of the alternativeiv The narrator as victim of his own constructionsChapter Three: Shame, Silence and Historicism in The Cencii Beatrice’s Casuistryii Shame and De-humanisationiii Shame as Self-constructionChapter Four: Julian and Maddalo: What the ‘cold world shall not know’i The Reticence of ‘the cold world’ and Shelley’s Critique of Symbolsii The Maniac’s Resistance and Byron’s ‘Prometheus’ iii The Maniac’s Performance of Shameiv Julian’s ReserveChapter Five: Metaphysical Sympathiesi Sympathetic Poetics in A Defence of Poetryii Transcending the Ego in Ode to the West Wind, Mont Blanc, Ode to Intellectual Beauty and AdonaisChapter Six: The Jane Poems: Love, Lyric and Lifei Eroticism and the hollowness of the "Lyric I"ii Sensory Bad faithiii Beyond DenialChapter Seven: The Triumph of Life: Pleasure versus process and the shame of self-knowledgei The Failure of Allegoryii Rousseau as the Subject-in-Shameiii Countering the ‘cold glare’Conclusion

Merrilees Roberts is a teaching associate at Queen Mary, University of London, where she teaches mainly literary theory. She also completed her doctoral work on Percy Shelley at Queen Mary, examining reticence in Percy Shelley’s poetry and philosophy.

• Introductioni Shelley’s Shamesii Shame Theoriesiii Reticenceiv Affect and Romanticismv TextsChapter One: Reticent Impersonations: Shelley’s Unhappy Consciousness i The Empty Subjectii Bad Faithiii Shame and Ideologyiv Historicismv The Problems of MaterialismChapter Two: Alastor’s Mute Poetsi Shelley and Wordsworthii Rejecting ‘natural piety’iii The veilèd maid and the disgrace of the alternativeiv The narrator as victim of his own constructionsChapter Three: Shame, Silence and Historicism in The Cencii Beatrice’s Casuistryii Shame and De-humanisationiii Shame as Self-constructionChapter Four: Julian and Maddalo: What the ‘cold world shall not know’i The Reticence of ‘the cold world’ and Shelley’s Critique of Symbolsii The Maniac’s Resistance and Byron’s ‘Prometheus’ iii The Maniac’s Performance of Shameiv Julian’s ReserveChapter Five: Metaphysical Sympathiesi Sympathetic Poetics in A Defence of Poetryii Transcending the Ego in Ode to the West Wind, Mont Blanc, Ode to Intellectual Beauty and AdonaisChapter Six: The Jane Poems: Love, Lyric and Lifei Eroticism and the hollowness of the "Lyric I"ii Sensory Bad faithiii Beyond DenialChapter Seven: The Triumph of Life: Pleasure versus process and the shame of self-knowledgei The Failure of Allegoryii Rousseau as the Subject-in-Shameiii Countering the ‘cold glare’Conclusion