The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley had a complicated relationship with the British Empire and the culture of colonialism. Considered politically radical and scandalous in Britain, Shelley lived in self-imposed exile and set much of his writing in foreign places. In Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey

Essays on aspects of English literature from Chaucer to Henry James, with special focus on the Romantics.

Books about Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands [microform] : Shelley's Poetic Development and Romantic Geography

Books about Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands, Shelley's Poetic Development and Romantic Geography

Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands examines the ways in which Shelley developed a ?Romantic geography? to provide visionary alternatives to an earth devastated by a new type of European colonialism and global expansion.