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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Laon and Cythna
    sub title: or, The revolution of the golden city
  title info:
    title: Revolution of the golden city
  title info:
    title: Revolt of Islam
  name:
    name part: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
    name part: 1792-1822
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Nersessian, Anahid
    name part: 1982-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 298 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Percy Bysshe Shelley's narrative poem Laon and Cythna is about a failed revolution, or is it? Laon and Cythna was quickly suppressed by Shelley's publisher, who feared he would be prosecuted for its revolutionary ideas and its depiction of incest between the two title characters, a brother and sister (it was later republished in its revised form as The Revolt of Islam). The siblings lead a rebellion against the Sultan of a city called Islam, which is liberated briefly before being recaptured by the Sultan's armies. Laon and Cythna are burnt at the stake, or seem to be. Just before they die, they are spirited away to a mysterious island, where the poet who recounts their story meets and talks to them. The poem asks what it means for a political movement to succeed, or to fail, and presents Shelley's revolutionary ideas in a suspenseful narrative. Historical appendices provide context for Shelley's political and philosophical works, the poem's feminist ideals, and the treatment of Asia and the Middle East in Romantic literature.
  note: Percy Bysshe Shelley ; edited by Anahid Nersessian.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-298).
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
      name part: 1792-1822
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  classification: PR5418.A2 N47 2016
  classification: 821/.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Broadview editions
  identifier: 9781554811946
  identifier: 1554811945
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 160208
    record change date: 20170927140401.0
    record identifier: in00003780554
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng