Red Shelley

Paul Foot shows in this book that the censorship and patronising of Percy Bysshe Shelley's works were induced by his political radicalism which inspired almost all of his writing. He traces Shelley's ideas through his republicanism, his atheism, his feminism, and his egalitarianism. He identifies the sources of these ideas and follows their course forward into the radical feminist and working class movements which grew to maturity after Shelley's death.