{"title":"Shelley as Visual Artist: Doodles, Sketches, Ink Blots, and the Critical Reception of the Visual","authors":"G. Allen","doi":"10.1353/srm.2021.0019","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper seeks to incorporate the visual elements of P.B. Shelley’s manuscripts into our interpretation of his works. Shelley criticism is currently overly dependent for its method, the paper argues, on the final intention methodology used by the current generation of scholarly editors of Shelley’s work. While the final intention model is an obvious one for editors to employ, I argue that we need a more inclusive critical methodology when it comes to Shelley’s often complex manuscripts. Using various examples, including discussion of “Ozymandius” and “The Triumph of Life,” the paper questions traditional presuppositions concerning the aesthetics of doddles, scribbles, sketches and apparent accidents such as ink blots.","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":"60 1","pages":"277 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2021.0019","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This paper seeks to incorporate the visual elements of P.B. Shelley’s manuscripts into our interpretation of his works. Shelley criticism is currently overly dependent for its method, the paper argues, on the final intention methodology used by the current generation of scholarly editors of Shelley’s work. While the final intention model is an obvious one for editors to employ, I argue that we need a more inclusive critical methodology when it comes to Shelley’s often complex manuscripts. Using various examples, including discussion of “Ozymandius” and “The Triumph of Life,” the paper questions traditional presuppositions concerning the aesthetics of doddles, scribbles, sketches and apparent accidents such as ink blots.
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Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.