Part I: Biography and relationships. Shelley and the British Isles / Donald H. Reiman and James Bieri ; Shelley and Italy / Ralph Pite ; Resolutions, destinations : Shelley's last year / Ann Wroe ; Shelley and women / Nora Crook ; Shelley and his publishers / Stephen C. Behrendt --
Part II: Prose. Shelley and philosophy : on a future state, speculations on metaphysics and morals, on life / Anthony Howe ; Religion and ethics : the necessity of atheism, a refutation of deism, on Christianity / Gavin Hopps ; Love, sexuality, gender : on love, discourse on love, and The banquet of Plato / Teddi Lynn Chichester ; Politics and satire / Steven E. Jones ; Politics, protest, and social reform : Irish pamphlets, Notes to Queen Mab, Letter to Lord Ellenborough, a philosophical view of reform / Michael Scrivener ; Poetics / Paul Hamilton ; Prose fiction : Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, The assassins, The coliseum / Diane Long Hoeveler ; Shelley's letters / Daisy Hay --
Part III: Poetry. Shelley's draft notebooks / Nancy Moore Goslee ; Lyric development : Esdaile notebook to Hymns of 1816 / David Duff ; Epic experiments : Queen Mab and Laon and Cythna / Jack Donovan ; Quest poetry : Alastor and Epipsychidion / Mark Sandy ; Lyrical drama : Prometheus unbound and Hellas / Stuart Curran ; Tragedy : the Cenci and Swellfoot the tyrant / Michael Rossington ; Shelley's familiar style : Rosalind and Helen, Julian and Maddalo, and Letter to Maria Gisborne / Anthonoy Howe ; Sonnets and odes / Michael O'Neill ; Popular songs and ballads : writing the Unwritten story in 1819 / Susan J. Wolfson ; Visionary rhyme : The sensitive-plant and The witch of Atlas / Jerrold E. Hogle ; Lyrics and love poems : Poems to Sophia Stacey, Jane Williams, and Mary Shelley / Shahidha Bari ; Shelley's pronouns : Lyrics, Hellas, Adonais, and The triumph of life / Michael O'Neill --
Part IV: Cultures, traditions, influences. Shelley and the Bible / Ian Balfour ; Shelley, mythology, and the classical tradition / Anthony John Harding ; Shelley and the Italian tradition / Alan Weinberg ; Origins of evil : Shelley, Goethe, Calderón, and Rousseau / Frederick Burwick ; Shelley and Milton / Madeleine Callaghan ; Shelley and the English tradition : Spenser and Pope / Michael O'Neill and Paige Tovey ; Shelley and his contemporaries / Kelvin Everest ; Shelley and music / Jessica K. Quillin ; Shelley, Shakespeare, and theatre / Bernard Beatty ; Shelley, the visual arts, and cinema / Sarah Wootton ; Shelley's sciences / Marilyn Gaull ; Shelley, travel, and tourism / Benjamin Colbert --
Part V: Afterlives. Shelley and the nineteenth century / Richard Cronin ; The influence of Shelley on twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry / Jeffrey C. Robinson ; Editing Shelley / Michael Rossington ; Shelley criticism from romanticism to modernism / Jane Stabler ; Shelley criticism from deconstruction to the present / Arthur Bradley.