Shelley and Vitality

1. Introduction: A New Dawn
Sharon Ruston

2. The Vitality Debate, 1814–19
Sharon Ruston

3. Shelley’s Knowledge of the ‘Science of Life’
Sharon Ruston

4. The Political Body: Prometheus Unbound

Sharon Ruston

5. ‘The Painted Veil’: Defining Life
Sharon Ruston

6. ‘The Poetry of Life’
Sharon Ruston

7. Conclusion
Sharon Ruston

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Life Sciences, general