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Authors: Richard Holmes

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Shelley:
general ideas and attitudes:
agriculture,
576
; astronomy,
80
,
204
; children,
114–15
,
205–6
,
207
; clergymen,
288
; death,
70
,
72
,
348
,
358
; divided self,
436
,
491
,
497
,
504
; education,
27
,
69–70
,
152–3
; evil,
499–502
,
515
,
523–4
; free love,
90
,
91
,
93
,
153
,
156
,
201
,
202
,
204–8
,
272
,
401
,
402
,
632–3
; graphology,
458–9
; Greek ideal,
477–8
; hermaphroditism, bisexuality,
436
,
517
,
566
,
604
,
605–6
; homosexuality, male friendship,
14–15
,
295
,
431–2
,
433–4
,
435–6
,
566
; ideal beauty, external form of,
542
; ideal woman,
43
,
632
,
722
; Illuminism,
52–3
,
118
,
126–7
,
198
,
387
; Italian Women,
418
,
428
,
449
,
481
,
486–7
; love,
34
,
44
,
46
,
49
,
64 n.
,
201
,
204–8
,
227–8
,
247
,
299
,
301–2
,
435–6
,
490
,
499–502
,
504
,
538
,
544
,
722
; marriage,
64
,
68–9
,
77–8
,
84
,
90
,
153
,
156
,
201
,
205–6
,
209
,
210
; mesmerism,
626–7
; metaphysics,
41–2
,
294–5
; nature,
74
,
202
,
339–41
,
489–90
,
492
,
497
,
504
; poetry, the poet,
156
,
381
,
475
,
584–6
,
641–6
,
659–60
; ‘principle of self’,
657
; principles of life,
328
; public reputation and fame,
551–5
; reliefs and sculpture,
15
,
488
,
565–8
; science,
16
,
24–5
,
41
,
44–5
,
75 n.
,
96
,
153
,
202
,
328
,
506–7
; ‘science of the mind’ (psychology),
292–3
,
294–5
,
297–300
; self-love, narcissism,
64
,
72
,
152
,
299
,
303
,
332
; sexuality, sexual love,
44
,
151
,
153
,
204
,
205
,
207
,
227–9
,
247
,
256–7
,
266 n.
,
272
,
303–6
,
372
& n.,
433–7
,
644
; solitude,
64–5
,
70
,
289–90
,
301
,
302
,
332
,
336 n.
; suicide,
70
; translation,
643
; vegetarianism,
156
,
200
,
201
,
209
,
217
,
220
,
373
; Zoroastrianism,
495
,
497

Shelley:
political and moral ideology
: in
An Address to the Irish People
,
120–2
; aristocracy and monarchy,
72
,
76
,
87
,
121
,
201
,
386
,
387
; atheism, religion,
46–8
,
49–51
,
54–5
,
56–7
,
62–3
,
67
,
72–3
,
75–6
,
94
,
96
,
98
,
100–1
,
121
,
154–5
,
201
,
204
,
209
,
210
,
280
,
340
,
341
,
361
,
402
,
436–7
,
459
,
514–15
,
557–8
,
571
,
673
,
678
,
711
; chastity/promiscuity,
205
,
206
; communal life,
150–1
; ‘constitutional presence’ of the people,
586
,
587
; in
Declaration of Rights
,
138–9
; Deism as precondition for social reform,
101
; economic exploitation,
385
,
386–7
,
586–7
; egalitarianism,
85
,
86
,
87
,
100
,
121
,
150–1
,
203
,
588
; in ‘On the Existing State of Things’,
151
; evolution of liberty theory,
118
; freedom of assembly,
121
,
122
,
591
; freedom of the press,
144
,
154–6
; Godwin’s influence,
97–8
,
103
,
121
,
122
,
432
; hypocrisy of society,
12–13
,
533
,
553–4
; individual virtue in political affairs,
63–4
; labour theory of value,
201
,
202
; liberty,
100
,
118
,
387–8
,
392
,
583
; Malthusian social theory,
576
,
586
; in
Mask of Anarchy
,
532–7
; mass political demonstrations,
535–7
; methodical society,
52
; misuse of wealth,
73
; modern political revolution,
400
,
401
,
444
; moral bigotry as political reactionism,
141–2
; national debt,
586
,
587–8
,
589
; natural v. corrupt society,
245–6
; obscenity,
434
; parliamentary reform,
589–91
; Philhellenism,
678–81
; poetry’s role in political reform,
584–6
,
591
,
642–3
,
645
; political associations,
119
,
120
,
122
,
123
,
126–7
,
128
,
129–30
,
131
,
165 n.
; political violence issue,
6
,
118
,
120–1
,
122
; popularism,
151–2
; in Preface to
Laon and Cythna
,
382–3
; private property,
588
;
Prometheus Unbound
, vision of political freedom in,
490–1
,
493–4
,
504–5
,
507–8
; prostitution,
153
,
201
,
205
,
206
,
434
,
553
,
638
;
Quarterly
attack on,
543–4
; in
Queen Mab
,
201–8
; reform movement in England,
345–50
,
363–6
,
385–8
,
569
,
580
,
583–93
; religion,
see
atheism; slavery,
433–4
,
478 n.
; social and moral freedom,
401–2
,
444
,
490
; social oppression and poverty,
74–5
,
76
,
107–9
,
121–2
,
127–8
,
386–7
,
475–7
,
557–8
,
562–3
,
586–7
; Southey’s influence,
99–102
; universal suffrage,
365
,
586
,
589–90
; venereal disease,
202
,
328
,
506–7
; women’s rights,
393
,
401–2
,
433–4
,
478 n.

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