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John Keats and the medical imagination / Nicholas Roe, editor.
Van Pelt Library PR4838.M4 J64 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Keats Bicentenary Conference (3rd : 2015 : London, England), author.
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Keats, John, 1795-1821--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.
- Keats, John.
- Keats, John, 1795-1821.
- Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Literature and medicine.
- Medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Philosophy--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Medical literature--Great Britain--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Medical literature.
- Diseases in literature--Congresses.
- Diseases in literature.
- Medicine in Literature--history.
- Poetry as Topic--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- Philosophy, Medical--history.
- History.
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United Kingdom.
- Great Britain.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine in Literature--history.
- Poetry as Topic--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- Philosophy, Medical--history.
- United Kingdom.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 262 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- Summary:
- "This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy's and the demands of a medical career are explored, as are the lyrical spheres of botany, melancholia, and Keats's strange oxymoronic poetics of suspended animation. Here too are links between surveillance of patients at Bedlam and of inner city streets that were walked by the poet of 'To Autumn'. The book concludes with a survey of multiple romantic pathologies of that most Keatsian of diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Nicholas Roe
- John Keats's 'Guy's Hospital' poetry / Hrileena Ghosh
- The beauty of bodysnatching / Druin Burch
- Mr. Keats / Nicholas Roe
- John Keats in the context of the physical society, Guy's Hospital, 1815-1816 / John Barnard
- John Keats, the botanist's companion / Nikki Hessell
- John Keats, medicine, and young men on the make / Jeffrey N. Cox
- Keats, mourning, and melancholia / R.S. White
- 'The feel of not to feel it': the life of non-sensation in Keats / Stuart Curran
- Objects of suspicion: Keats, 'To Autumn' and the psychology of romantic surveillance / Richard Marggraf Turley
- Keats's killing breath: paradigms of a pathography / Damian Walford Davies.
- Notes:
- "Contains ten chapters, originally presented to the Keats Foundation Bicentenary Conference at Guy's Hospital, London, in May 2015. The conference theme was 'John Keats: Poet-Physician, Physician-Poet', marking 200 years since Keats enrolled at Guy's in October 1815."--Page 1.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9783319638102
- 3319638106
- 9783319876429
- 3319876422
- OCLC:
- 992780504
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