{"title":"Aaron Burr and Mary Shelley’s Lodore","authors":"W. Brewer","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2022.2075582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2022.2075582","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During Aaron Burr’s two sojourns in England, which occurred when Mary Shelley was 10, 11, and 14 years old, the disgraced former American Vice President frequently visited her family. Now best known for slaying Alexander Hamilton in an 11 July 1804 duel, Burr was a fervent admirer of Shelley’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and a devoted father to his daughter Theodosia Burr Alston, whom he had educated according to the principles promulgated in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Like Burr, the title-character of Shelley’s novel Lodore is a mercurial figure who has an extremely close relationship with his daughter, carefully supervises her education, and fights a fatal duel near New York City. Lodore also features another dedicated father, Lord Lodore’s friend Francis Derham, who trains his daughter Fanny to be ‘independent and self-sufficing.’ In this article, I explore the possibility that Shelley’s girlhood acquaintance with Burr influenced her depictions of Lodore and of Derham’s Wollstonecraftian education of Fanny. If Shelley’s portrayals of Lodore and Derham were informed by her acquaintance with Burr, they suggest that she considered Burr’s restless ambition, adherence to the violent code duello, and quixotism harmfully misguided but admired his commitment to his daughter and her ‘masculine’ education.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"36 1","pages":"9 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44770486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Italian Idea: Anglo-Italian Radical Literary Culture, 1815–1823","authors":"Elisa Cozzi","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2022.2075613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2022.2075613","url":null,"abstract":"Shelley, to complement existing scholarship, transcriptions, and facsimiles in the invaluable Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts, Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics, and Shelley and his Circle in offering researchers rigorously edited and thoughtfully presented editions of Shelley’s poetry. Movingly, in her commentary on The Triumph of Life manuscript, Crook reminds the reader that Shelley’s last poetic words were not uttered through the forlorn Rousseau of The Triumph, but were instead directed to Leigh Hunt, welcoming his friend to Italy:","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"36 1","pages":"47 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44241661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Rise Now from Your Slumber’: Ballads and Songs of Peterloo","authors":"Alison Morgan","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1972577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1972577","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the months following the Peterloo Massacre, an array of poems and songs was published in radical newspapers or as broadside ballads, the first of which appeared in the Manchester Observer a mere five days after the event. What is of import regarding Peterloo's literature is the speed with which it was written and published as well as the range of genres used by the largely anonymous balladeers to convey the outrage, horror and despair felt by the majority of English people at the slaughter of their fellow citizens. This article explores a selection of Peterloo songs, focusing both on their initial publication and longer-lasting impact on radical discourse not only demonstrating that they were not as ephemeral as the publications in which they were first printed, but also indicating the wider significance of Peterloo to the continuing campaign for democracy. Furthermore, through a joint project with musicians as part of the bicentennial commemorations, new life has been breathed into these songs, enabling the voices from 200 years ago to both inform and inspire audiences in an era in which democracy is under siege and xenophobic nationalism on the rise.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"138 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44001697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}