Transnational Shelley(s): Metamorphoses and Reconfigurations

This special issue celebrates the multifaceted afterlives of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley, exploring the many echoes their oeuvre has generated throughout the history of modern and contemporary literature. Beginning with Mary Shelley’s immediate editorial and critical efforts, and moving through late nineteenth-century Victorian celebrations and Modernist (apparent) rejection, the history of the Shelleys’ critical fortune stands as one of the most compelling trajectories in modern literary culture. It offers a privileged point of observation from which to ponder the nature of their poetic and philosophical legacy. As the various contributions to this issue demonstrate, that legacy has reverberated across literary traditions from across the globe, extending well beyond the boundaries of the anglophone canon. the process.