John Keats and the Medical Imagination

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

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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt
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.