Albert Gelpi

Adrienne Rich

Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi

Presents an annotated selection of poems and prose writings by twentieth-century American author Adrienne Rich, and includes thirteen reviews and interpretations of her work.

Poems, Prose, Reviews, and Criticism

Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose

Nannerl O. Keohane

Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo

A Critique of Ideology

Feminist Theory

This book addresses the significance of the mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry and life, with Shelley as the focus for a study of the rich historical and theoretical issues relevant to motherhood in the Romantic period. Gelpi offers a derailed account of the historical rise in attention paid to mothering, the changing cultural attitudes towards the role of the mother, and the resulting effect on the nature of family life. Shelley's Goddess combines psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and feminist theory with extensive biographical material, information on motherhood in England after 1790, and a detailed reading of Prometheus Unbound, in an important reassessment of Shelley's avowed feminism and the failure of his utopian vision.

Maternity, Language, Subjectivity

Shelley's Goddess

The subject of Gelpi's new book is the importance of the mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelly's poetry and life. However, her book also uses Shelley as a touchstone by which to examine the rich historical and theoretical issues relevant to motherhood in the Romantic period. Gelpi offers a detailed account of the historical rise in attention paid to mothering, the changing cultural attitudes towards the role of the mother, and the resulting effect on the nature of family life. She further discusses the psychoanalytic, Marxist, and developmental approaches to the mother/infant relationship, particularly to the connection each makes between that relationship and the acquisition of language. By combining psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and feminist theory with extensive biographical material on Shelley and information on the position of mothers in England after 1790, Gelpi offers an important reassessment of Shelley's avowed feminism and the failure of his utopian vision.

This Norton Critical Edition includes:* Generous selections of poetry and prose from the entire oeuvre of one of America's most influential poets.* An introduction and explanatory annotations by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi, and Brett Millier.* Fifteen reviews and critical commentaries, nine of them new to the Second Edition, carefully chosen as a guide to Adrienne Rich's poetics--and to her poetics as related to politics--ranging from W. H. Auden's 1951 response to her first book to critics' reviews of the magisterial Collected Poems in 2016.* A Chronology, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index.About the SeriesRead by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

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