John Keats and the Medical Imagination (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Roe, Nicholas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Features essays from a range of world-renowned Keats scholars

Opens hitherto unconsidered perspectives on Keats's life and work as a trainee surgeon at Guy's

Questions whether our assessments of Keats's genius should focus on the poet's earlier medical years rather than, or along with, the 1819

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319638119
• Artikelnr.: 53057827

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Roe is Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has written widely on John Keats, in books such as Keats and History (1995), John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (1997) and John Keats. A New Life (2012). He was for 17 years a Trustee  of the Keats-Shelley Memorial  Association and is Chair of the Keats Foundation. 

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction.- 2: John Keats's 'Guy Hospital' Poetry, Hrileena Ghosh.- 3: The Beauty of Bodysnatching, Druin Burch.- 4: Mr Keats, Nicholas Roe.- 5: John Keats in the Context of the Physical Society, Guy's Hospital, 1815-1816, John Barndard.- 6: John Keats, The Botanist's Companion, Nikki Hessell.- 7: John Keats, Medicine and Young Men on the Make, Jeffrey Cox.- 8: Keats, Mourning and Melancholia, R.S. White.- 9: 'The feel of not to feel it': The Life of Non-Sensation in Keats, Stuart Curran.- 10: Objects of Suspicion: Keats, 'To Autumn' and Romantic Surveillance, Richard Marggraf Turley.- 11. Keats's Killing Breath: Paradigms of a Pathography.

Rezensionen

"I did feel that the book splendidly achieves what Roe explains it set out to do, that is, 'enabling readers to comprehend the full span of [Keats's] creative genius with fresh knowledge, enhanced understanding and deeper insight'. Each chapter provides a most useful collection of references for further study. This book helps students of Keats's poetry to work towards a learning of 'a great whole'..." (Elizabeth Askey, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, 2017)

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