Abstract
This essay rediscovers the link between the expatriate newspaper Galignani's Messenger and Shelley's 1819 political poetry, particularly The Mask of Anarchy and Song , To the Men of England . It is suggested that a reading of this newspaper helps us to understand Shelley's response to the counter-revolutionary press of his day; previous accounts have tended to solely stress Shelley's allegiance to Leigh Hunt's politics. As well as being a contribution to book history, this essay highlights the future of the nineteenth-century book by exploring the ways the ongoing digitization of nineteenth-century texts can enable new readings of familiar texts. It also covers some theoretical issues raised by these readings, namely the development of the Digital Humanities and intertextual theory.
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