Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
4 p.; 23 cm.
Publication Date
1993
Publisher
University of California Press
Source Publication
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Source ISSN
0891-9356
Original Item ID
doi: 10.2307/2933654
Abstract
When the hero of Ferdinand von Loeben's 1 808 novel Guido sees a sample of handwriting in Sanskrit he remarks, "languages have always seemed to me to be lost holy children who cover the whole world in search of their mother" (p. 62). Guido's observation could stand as a paraphrase of Percy Shelley's lifelong interest in language, mediated as it was by his equally compelling obsessions with maternity and subjectivity. And we are fortunate to have these three concerns brought together by Barbara Gelpi's Shelley's Goddess.
Recommended Citation
Hoeveler, Diane, "Review of Shelley’s Goddess: Maternity, Language and Subjectivity by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi" (1993). English Faculty Research and Publications. 65.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/english_fac/65
Comments
Published version. Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 48, No. 3 (December 1993): 365-368. DOI. © 1993 University of California Press. Used with permission.