Blasphemy and Politics in Romantic Literature

1. Introduction



1.1. Blasphemy: History and Definition



1.2. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Blasphemy and Creativity



1.3. Shelley and Romantic Religion









2. Chapter 2: Blasphemy and Copyright in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1695-1823



2.1. Licensing of the Press and Religious Tolerance, 1698-1710



2.2. Copyright, Censorship and Class: The Statute of Anne and 'Bad Language', 1710-1745



2.3. Blasphemy, Obscenity or Sedition: John Wilkes to William Hone, 1745-1817



2.4. Chancery and the Dissemination of 'Injurious' Texts, 1817-1823









3. Chapter 3: Blasphemy and the Shelley Canon: Queen Mab and Laon and Cythna



3.1. Queen Mab: Readership, Reputation and 'Respectability' in the 1820s



3.2. Censoring Queen Mab in the (Il)legitimate Press: William Clark, Richard Carlile, Mary Shelley



3.3. From 'God' to 'Power': Laon and Cythna to The Revolt of Islam



3.4. The Contemporary Shelley Canon







4. Chapter 4: Vulgar Anthropomorphisms: Blasphemy, Power and the Philosophy of Language



4.1. Anthropomorphising the Abstract: Scepticism of Language in Queen Mab and Laon and Cythna



4.2. The Vitality and Epistemology of Language: 'Ode to the West Wind' and 'Mont Blanc'







5. Chapter 5: The Promethean Conqueror, the Galilean Serpent and the Jacobin Jesus: Shelley's Interpretation(s) of Jesus Christ



5.1. Secularising and Demystifing Jesus



5.2. A Jesus in History: Reformer and Blasphemer



5.3. Prometheus Unbound: Suffering, Faith and Atonement in the Gospel According to Percy Bysshe Shelley







6. Conclusion



6.1. From Infidel to Canonisation: Shelley's Posthumous Reputation

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Romantic poetry;Percy Bysshe Shelley;eighteenth century politics;eighteenth century religion;censorship;atheism;aesthetics;British and Irish Literature