Percy Bysshe
Shelley
The Reception of Shelley in Europe is part of the Project’s sub-series on
Romanticism, series editor Dr Elinor Shaffer. The volume editors are Dr Susanne
Schmid and Dr Michael Rossington. The volume is in preparation and scheduled
for publication by Continuum in 2008.
Susanne
Schmid lectures at the Institut für England-und Amerikastudien
of the Johann Wolfgang
Goethe University
(Frankfurt a.M.).
She is the author of Shelley’s German Afterlives 1814-2000 (New York: Palgrave, 2006); Byron, Shelley, Keats: Ein biographisches Lesebuch
(Munich: dtv, 1999), and ‘Reception as Performance:
The Case of Shelley in Germany’
in Comparative Romantic Poetry, ed.
Angela Esterhammer, Comparative History of
Literatures in European Languages 17 (Amsterdam:
Benjamins, 2002). From 2002 to 2004 she was a
Visiting Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University.
Michael
Rossington is Senior Lecturer in
English Literature at the University
of Newcastle upon Tyne.
He has published editions of Mary Shelley’s Valperga (2000) and Percy
Shelley’s The Cenci
in The Poems of Shelley, vol. 2, eds Kelvin Everest and Geoffrey Matthews (2000). He is,
with Dr Jack Donovan (University of York) and Dr Cian Duffy (St
Mary’s College) and Prof. Kelvin Everest (University of Liverpool),
editing the third and final volume of The
Poems of Shelley for the Longman Annotated English Poets series, due for
publication in 2007.
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International
Colloquium on the Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe
Saturday,
8 July 2006, University College, Oxford
The aim
of the colloquium was to analyse in a systematic
manner the European reception of the poet since his death. The widespread and
culturally significant impact of Shelley’s writings in Europe
especially in the nineteenth century constitutes a particularly interesting
case for a reception study.
The
colloquium was a British Association for Romantic Studies Day Conference,
subsidized by University College, Oxford and
supported by the University
of Newcastle upon Tyne
and the RBAE Project Office.
The
organizers of the colloquium were Dr Jon Mee (University of Oxford),
Dr Michael Rossington (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) and Dr Susanne Schmid (University of Frankfurt).
Dr Jon Mee is Margaret Candfield Fellow
in English at University College Oxford. He has written widely on literature,
culture, and politics in the Romantic period. He is currently co-editing with
Prof. John Barrell (University of York)
a selection of trials for treason and sedition from the period 1792-94. In
October 2006 he took up a three-year Leverhulme Major
Research Fellowship on ‘the conversation of culture’.
University College
Oxford
is a singularly appropriate venue for the colloquium in light of its Shelleyan associations and its recent acquisition of highly
significant Shelley manuscripts. Click here
for the programme.