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Keats, Hunt, and the aesthetics of pleasure / Ayumi Mizukoshi.
Van Pelt Library PR4838.A35 M59 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Mizukoshi, Ayumi, 1967-
- Series:
- Romanticism in perspective
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Keats, John, 1795-1821--Aesthetics.
- Keats, John.
- Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.
- Keats, John, 1795-1821.
- Literature and society--England--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Aesthetics.
- Friends and associates.
- England.
- History.
- English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859--Friends and associates.
- Hunt, Leigh.
- Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859--Aesthetics.
- Aesthetics, British--19th century.
- Aesthetics, British.
- Social classes in literature.
- Romanticism--England.
- Romanticism.
- Pleasure in literature.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 228 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave, 2001.
- Summary:
- This book tackles the interpretative problem of "pleasure" in Keats's poetry by placing him in the context of the liberal, leisured, and luxurious culture of Hunt's circle. Challenging the standard interpretation that attributes Keats's poetic development to his separation from Hunt, Mizukoshi argues that Keats, imbued with Hunt's bourgeois ethic and aesthetic, remained a poet of sensuous pleasure through to the end of his short career.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: A Problem of Interpretation 1
- A problem of pleasure 1
- A problem of politics 4
- The Cockney revival 6
- 2 The Bourgeois Cultural Revolution 10
- The ethics of luxury 10
- The aesthetics of pleasure 13
- The question of morality 21
- The question of vulgarity 25
- Culture, commerce and commercialism 29
- 3 The Aesthetics of Nature 39
- Nature for conspicuous consumption 39
- The suburban gardenesque 43
- The charge of Cockneyism 50
- Hunt's version of pastoral 54
- The Bower of Bliss: Spenser commodified 61
- 4 Classicism as Cultural Luxury 71
- The Greek revival 71
- The rise of nationalism 73
- The rise of the popular 75
- The attack on Cockney classicism 81
- Classicism for bourgeois consumption 86
- The politics of pagan pleasure 95
- 5 'A Leafy Luxury': Poems (1817) 104
- A problem of canonisation 104
- 'A love of sociality': epistles and sonnets 109
- Leafy luxury: Spenser suburbanised 117
- 6 'Wherein Lies Happiness?': Endymion (1818) 131
- Leafy luxury extended 131
- The aesthetics of Beauty and Truth 141
- 7 'Visions of Delight': Lamia (1820) 148
- Metamorphosis incomplete 148
- A poet of sensation 160
- A problem of popularity 171
- 8 Conclusion: The Return of the Aesthetic 180.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Oxford).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333929586
- OCLC:
- 45102926
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