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en: Epipsychidion and Shelley's Esoteric Readers

ja: 『エピサイキディオン』とシェリーの秘儀的読者

en: Essays in English Romanticism

ja: イギリスロマン派研究


en: A Dialogue between Religion and Literature: The Last Temptation of Christ

ja: 宗教と文学との対話ー『キリスト最後のこころみ』

en: Studies in Christianity and Literature

ja: キリスト教文学研究


en: Shelley's "Mont Blanc" and Helen Maria Williams

ja: シェリーの ``Mont Blanc'' とヘレン・マライア・ウィリアムズ

en: Helen Maria Williams is best known for her witness account of the French Revolution with her eight volumes of Letters from France (1790-1796), which was widely read and used by many writers who referred to the events and the lives of people in France during the turbulent years of the Revolution, including Wordsworth, Hazlitt, and Carlyle. It is certain that Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was born a generation later read her books of prose and poetry. The center of attention in this study is two travel books to Switzerland: A tour in Switzerland published by Williams in 1798 and History of a Six Weeks' Tour written by Mary and Percy Shelley and published in 1817. Each contains accounts of the landscape and people of the region, and each contains a poem describing Alpine mountains. Shelley's poem, ``Mont Blanc,'' is the better known of the two and has been a focus of critical attention by hundreds of books and articles. An examination of the writings of the two writers side by side will bring out the affinity in language and thought between the two writers and help understanding Shelley's controversial poem as well. That affinity means how familiar Williams and other writers of 1790s were to Shelley. It also supports the view that British Romantic literature had its origin in the ideas of the progressive intellectuals of 1780s and 90s who welcomed the French Revolution. This paper attempts to support that hypothesis by illustrating the affinity in the poetic language and the ideas on the nature of imagination found in Williams's A Tour and Shelley's famous poem. The two writer's poems share a characteristic attitude in the observation of nature. It is to look at nature with all its details but to leave what is incomprehensive as it is. The affinity thus brought out sheds light on the enigmatic ending of Shelley's ``Mont Blanc.''

en: Journal of Language and Literature, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima

ja: 徳島大学総合科学部言語文化研究


en: Robert Merry and Mary Robinson: The French Revolution and the Poetry of Sensibility

ja: ロバート・メリーとメアリー・ロビンソン : フランス革命と感受性の詩

ja: 徳島大学総合科学部言語文化研究


en: Pilgrimage and Literature: The Journey and the Story in the Heart of Darkness

ja: 遍路と文学―『闇の奥』における旅と物語

en: Studies in Literature and Christianity


en: The Ideology of Sensibility in Della Cruscan Poetry and the 18th Century Media

ja: デラクルスカ派の詩における感受性のイデオロギーと十八世紀メディア

ja: 徳島大学総合科学部言語文化研究


en: Book Reviews : Michael O'Neill, Shelleyan Reimaginings and Influence : New Relations

ja: 書評: Michael O'Neill : Shelleyan Reimaginings and Influence : New Relations

ja: イギリス・ロマン派研究


en: Review: On the Bullet Train with Emily Bronte

ja: 書評ーOn the Bullet Train with Emily Bronte

en: Annual Bulletin of Japan Shelley Studies Center

ja: 日本シェリー研究センター年報


en: Review: Alex Watson and Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey, eds., Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies 82. Special Issue Romantic Connections

ja: 書評:『Poetica』82号特集「Romantic Connections」

en: Shelley Studies: Annual Bulletin of Japan Shelley Studies Center

ja: 日本シェリー研究センター年報


en: Yuko Adegawa's Cultural and Moral Conflicts in Henry James' Novels

ja: 阿出川祐子『ヘンリー・ジェイムズの作品における異文化対立と道徳』