Merrilees Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merrilees Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merrilees |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5859-2665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Percy Shelley in Context
Percy Shelley was a writer in the broadest sense – poet, pamphleteer, philosopher, translator, and correspondent – and one of the most eccentric, fascinating figures of his age. Yet he is emphatically of our age too, continuing to influence contemporary writers, to be referenced in popular culture, and to inspire social and political movements. Bringing together a wide range of contributors from different critical perspectives, this vivid and acc…
Byron and Shelley
I analyse Shelley’s fraught relationship with Byron’s self-monumentalising, flippantly self-mocking poetics and personal pride, arguing that Shelley’s notion of a ‘Promethean’ poet who catches the strains of general human ‘sympathy’ tenses productively against what he saw as Byron’s narrow drive to create an elevated poetic ‘self’. Shelley, though he admired Byron’s poetics in many ways, also saw his friend as being at risk, poetically and person…
Percy Shelley for Our Times
Erotic affect
I explore how P.B. Shelley’s love-lyrics to Jane Williams generate and invite specifically erotic forms of affect. This, I argue can be helpfully understood through Sara Ahmed’s theory that affects make their direct objects ‘sticky’ with emotion by transforming them into a surface receptive to the impact of feeling. Focusing on ‘A Magnetic Lady to her Patient’, I show how Shelley’s poet-speakers create an erotic fantasy of becoming an inert eroti…
Shelley’s Poetics of Reticence
Exploring the rhetorical and phenomenological links between shame and reticence, this book examines the psychology of Shelley's anguished poet-Subject. Shelley's struggles with the fragility of the 'self' have largely been seen as the result of thinking which connects emotional hyperstimulation to moral and political undermining of the individual 'will'. This work takes a different approach, suggesting that Shelley's insecurities stemmed from anx…
Flowing and Crossing
Metaphors of fluidity are pervasive in the theologies of Mechthild of Magdeburg and Lalleśwarī of Kashmir. This article highlights the various ways in which the body flows with and into divinity. For both thinkers, the universe and individuals proceed from a cosmic or divine flow and return by means of practices that participate in that flow. Their water metaphors diverge when the individual self returns to the divine: Mechthild retains images of…
Shelley’s Poetics of Reticence
Exploring the rhetorical and phenomenological links between shame and reticence, this book examines the psychology of Shelley's anguished poet-Subject. Shelley's struggles with the fragility of the 'self' have largely been seen as the result of thinking which connects emotional hyperstimulation to moral and political undermining of the individual 'will'. This work takes a different approach, suggesting that Shelley's insecurities stemmed from anx…
Flowing and Crossing
Metaphors of fluidity are pervasive in the theologies of Mechthild of Magdeburg and Lalleśwarī of Kashmir. This article highlights the various ways in which the body flows with and into divinity. For both thinkers, the universe and individuals proceed from a cosmic or divine flow and return by means of practices that participate in that flow. Their water metaphors diverge when the individual self returns to the divine: Mechthild retains images of…
Shelley’s Poetics of Reticence
Exploring the rhetorical and phenomenological links between shame and reticence, this book examines the psychology of Shelley's anguished poet-Subject. Shelley's struggles with the fragility of the 'self' have largely been seen as the result of thinking which connects emotional hyperstimulation to moral and political undermining of the individual 'will'. This work takes a different approach, suggesting that Shelley's insecurities stemmed from anx…
Erotic affect
I explore how P.B. Shelley’s love-lyrics to Jane Williams generate and invite specifically erotic forms of affect. This, I argue can be helpfully understood through Sara Ahmed’s theory that affects make their direct objects ‘sticky’ with emotion by transforming them into a surface receptive to the impact of feeling. Focusing on ‘A Magnetic Lady to her Patient’, I show how Shelley’s poet-speakers create an erotic fantasy of becoming an inert eroti…
Percy Shelley in Context
Percy Shelley was a writer in the broadest sense – poet, pamphleteer, philosopher, translator, and correspondent – and one of the most eccentric, fascinating figures of his age. Yet he is emphatically of our age too, continuing to influence contemporary writers, to be referenced in popular culture, and to inspire social and political movements. Bringing together a wide range of contributors from different critical perspectives, this vivid and acc…
Byron and Shelley
I analyse Shelley’s fraught relationship with Byron’s self-monumentalising, flippantly self-mocking poetics and personal pride, arguing that Shelley’s notion of a ‘Promethean’ poet who catches the strains of general human ‘sympathy’ tenses productively against what he saw as Byron’s narrow drive to create an elevated poetic ‘self’. Shelley, though he admired Byron’s poetics in many ways, also saw his friend as being at risk, poetically and person…
Percy Shelley for Our Times
Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)