Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface: Utopia and the Shelley Circle Chapter 2 Setting Minds Afloat: Shelley and Barruel in Ireland Chapter 3 A Political Poetics: Percy Shelley's Utopian Activism Chapter 4 Toward an Imaginative Poetics: A Convergence of Theory and Practice in A Philosophical View of Reform Chapter 5 Private Visions/Public Responsibilities: The Alastor Volume Chapter 6 Re/membering Home: Utopian Domesticity in Mary Shelley's Lodore Chapter 7 The Aesthetic of Utopia in Shelley's Queen Mab Chapter 8 Science and Spirit: Shelley's Vegetarian Essays and the Body as Utopian State Chapter 9 Prophet and Loss: Women and the Shelley Circle's Utopian Project

About the Author

Darby Lewes is Professor of English at Lycorning College. She is the author of Nudes from Nowhere: Utopian Sexual Landscapes (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000) and Dream Revisionaries: Genre and Gender in Women's Utopian Fiction, 1870-1920 (University of Alabama Press, 1995).