I. Life and Death: 1. Family and education Nora Crook; 2. Women and children Daisy Hay; 3. Great Britain and Ireland Timothy Heimlich; 4. Switzerland Patrick Vincent; 5. Italy Valentina Varinelli; 6. Byron and Shelley Jacques Khalip; Part II. Intellectual, Cultural, and Political Contexts: 7. Ancient philosophy Amanda Blake Davis; 8. Ancient poetry Tom Phillips; 9. English literature to 1792 Ross Wilson; 10. European literature, Dante to Rousseau Diego Saglia; 11. The visual and plastic arts Sophie Thomas; 12. The radical press Philip Connell; 13. Shelley and the lake poets: '-have I not kept the vow?' Eric Lindstrom; 14. Mary Shelley Anna Mercer; 15. Thomas Love Peacock Joseph Turner; 16. The cold worlds of Byron and Shelley Merrilees Roberts; 17. Keats and Shelley Anahid Nersessian; 18. Revolution and reform Brian McGrath; 19. Political economy Paul Stephens; 20. Empire Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey; 21. Shelley's sexless sexuality Kate Singer; 22. The British empiricists Chris Townsend; 23. The sciences Andrew Lacey; 24. Religion Colin Jager; Part III. Writings: 25. Publishing, publishers, and editions Michael Rossington; 26. Correspondence Will Bowers; 27. Shelley's translations Mathelinda Nabugodi; 28. The gothic Jerrold E. Hogle; 29. Lyric Alexander Freer; 30. Drama Julie Camarda; 31. Epic Yasmin Solomonescu; 32. Shelley's laughter Matthew Ward; Part IV. Afterlives: 33. Contemporary reviews Kim Wheatley; 34. Biographers, memoirists, reminiscers 1823–1878 Bysshe Inigo Coffey; 35. Global reception and translation Omar F. Miranda; 36. 'For the many, not the few': Shelley and politics from Chartism to socialism Casie LeGette; 37. The Victorians' Shelley Tom Mole; 38. Twentieth-century poetry Madeleine Callaghan; 39. Lyric trouble: Shelley and contemporary poetry John Wilkinson; 40. Shelley and popular culture Suzanne L. Barnett; 41. Shelley: palinode/divagation Maureen N. McLane.