ABSTRACT The amendments to Laon and Cythna following its withdrawal from publication in December 1817 are generally seen to sacrifice aesthetic merit for self-censorship. There remain, however, few detailed readings of these modifications. This article offers such a reading arguing that although some alterations are indeed functional, others serve aesthetic purposes. This article concludes that these revisions signal a transitioning point in Shelley’s thought. Whereas Queen Mab (1813) refers to ‘God’, later works like Prometheus Unbound (1820) prefer the term ‘Power’. That we see Shelley move from one to the other in the revised The Revolt of Islam is therefore significant.

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Laon 和 Cythna 以及伊斯兰教的叛乱：作为过渡的修订

摘要 Laon 和 Cythna 在 1817 年 12 月退出出版后的修正案通常被认为是为了自我审查而牺牲美学价值。然而，关于这些修改的详细阅读仍然很少。这篇文章提供了这样一种解读，认为虽然有些改动确实是功能性的，但其他改动是出于审美目的。本文的结论是，这些修订标志着雪莱思想的一个转变点。麦布皇后（1813 年）指的是“上帝”，而后来的《无限制的普罗米修斯》（1820 年）等作品更喜欢使用“权力”一词。因此，我们看到雪莱在修订后的《伊斯兰起义》中从一个转移到另一个，意义重大。