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Shelley opposed revolution, advocating instead gradual change through non-violence. He argued that individual and institutional reform went hand in hand. He maintained that poets, writers, and philosophers would stimulate reforms of the social institutions that would benefit everyone in society.
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if he could find a publisher for the work: "Do you know any bookseller who wd publish for me an octavo volume entitled 'A philosophical View of Reform'. It is boldly but temperately written – & I think readable – It is intended for a kind of standard book for the philosophical reformers."
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between November, 1819 and 20 May 1820, meant to address political developments in England at that time. He advocated non-violence and a moderate response to the repressive measures imposed by the British government. One of the events he addressed was the
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had a transcript made of the manuscript with plans to publish the work. The political essay remained unpublished, however, until 1920 when it appeared for the first time in print in an edition published by
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The Shelleys and empire: 'Prometheus Unbound', 'Frankenstein', 'A Philosophical View of Reform', and the modern African fictions of liberation
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abolish tithes, and make all religions, all forms of opinion regarding the origin and government of the universe, equal under the law.
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make justice inexpensive, certain, and speedy, and extend the institution of juries to every possible occasion of jurisprudence.
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on 6 November: "I have deserted the odorous gardens of literature to journey across the great sandy desert of Politics."
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Shelley's Revolutionary Year: Shelley's Political Poems and the Essay "A Philosophical View of Reform"
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It was during this unstable political period in England in late 1819 when Shelley started writing
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had been found guilty of blasphemy by a jury in November, 1819 for printing an edition of
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Oxford University Press
Peterloo Massacre
Richard Carlile
The Age of Reason
Thomas Paine
Maria Gisborne
Charles Ollier
Leigh Hunt
Mary Shelley
Humphrey Milford
Thomas William Rolleston
accessed 20 July 2011.
accessed 20 July 2011.
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Online version of the 1920 Oxford edition of A Philosophical View of Reform by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cenci
Prometheus Unbound
Hellas

Zastrozzi
St. Irvyne
The Necessity of Atheism

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