Jacqueline Mulhallen

Reviews

"This gem of a book recaptures Shelley’s world and demonstrates the revolutionary poet’s relevance for our own world." Alex Snowden on Counterfire

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary

Jackie's political biography of Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary (London: Pluto Press, October 2015), attracted accolades even before being published, and it has subsequently attracted praise in reviews:

Camden New Journal (5 November 2015)
Counterfire website (6 November 2015), republished on the ORGANISED RAGE website (14 November 2015)
Sceptical Scot website (10 November 2016), republished on the metropolis2520 website
Le Monde Diplomatique book of the month (December 2015)
rs21 website (6 January 2016)
Peace News (April-May 2016)
Romantic Circles (5 July 2016)
The BARS Review (2016)
Coleridge Bulletin (2018)

"It offers a clear and detailed analysis of the development and culmination of Shelley's political ideology." Josefina Tuominen-Pope in The BARS Review

"Mullhallen’s study is a valuable reminder of the binding thread that runs through Shelley’s work: the importance of the imagination as an agent of human freedom." Sceptical Scot

"This book is an excellent study of Shelley’s life, political ideas and literary work." Matthew Cookson, rs21

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen, published by Pluto Press

"Jacqueline Mulhallen’s excellent short biographical account of Shelley’s political radicalism" Philip Connell in Romantic Circles

Jeremy Corbyn in The Financial Times

"One of the great virtues of this biography... is Mulhallen’s ability to demonstrate how Shelley’s political ideals are inextricably bound up with his poetry, a continuous connection which is the font and foundation of his creative process." Adam Walker in the Coleridge Bulletin

"Mulhallen’s enjoyable book is a compact but thorough overview of Shelley’s three decades, situating the chronological details of his life in the political context of the time." Erica Smith in Peace News