| John Keats and the Medical Imagination Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Roe, Nicholas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319876422 ISBN-13: 9783319876429 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $132.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - 18th Century |
| Dewey: 809.033 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.75 lbs) 262 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |