Keats's Reading / Reading Keats

Essays in Memory of Jack Stillinger
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-79532-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 501 g

This book explores John Keats’s reading practices and intertextual dialogues with other writers.  It also examines later writers’ engagements with Keats’s poetry. Finally, the book honors the distinguished Keats scholar Jack Stillinger and includes an essay surveying his career as well as a bibliography of his major publications. The first section of the volume, “Theorizing Keats’s Reading,” contains four essays that identify major patterns in the poet’s reading habits and responses to other works. The next section, “Keats’s Reading,” consists of six essays that examine Keats’s work in relation to specific earlier authors and texts. The four essays in the third section, “Reading Keats,” consider how Keats’s poetry influenced the work of later writers and became embedded in British and American literary traditions. The final section of the book, “Contemporary Poetic Responses,” features three scholar-poets who, in poetry and/or prose commentary, discuss and exemplify Keats’s impact on their work.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lau, Beth

Johnson, Daniel

Kucich, Greg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Keats the Reader.- 3. Keats's Metaphor of Reading.- 4. Keats's Translational Poetics.- 5. Rereading Keats's Reading in the Digital Realm.- 6. “Jack a Lanthern” Verse: Of Pots and Precursors and Poetic Value in Isabella.- 7. Keats Reading Chaucer: Troilus and Arrested Time in The Eve of St. Agnes.- 8. Keats’s Confrontation with Nothingness in “When I Have Fears” and Other Poems.- 9. Seeing Spots: Milton, Addison, Keats, and the Emergence of the Sublime Pathetic.- 10. Keats as a Reader of Novels.- 11. Late Reading: John Clare and John Keats.- 12. Keats’s Formal Legacy and the Victorians.- 13. “A Season Changes Color to No End”: Keats’s “To Autumn,” Wallace Stevens, and the Post-Romantic Imagination.- 14. Modern Experimental Poets Reading Keats: “Misers of Sound and Syllable”.- 15. The Chameleon Poet.- 16. Writing on Keats, Writing with Keats: Ghostlier Intonations, Marginalia, and Epigraphs Among Friends—Or, My Keats.- 17. Poems

Über Autor(innen)

Beth Lau  is Professor of English Emerita at California State University, Long Beach, USA. She has published numerous studies of Keats’s books, reading, and marginalia, including  Keats’s Reading of the Romantic Poets  (1991) and  Keats’s  Paradise Lost (1998). Her other research interests include Jane Austen and cognitive-evolutionary approaches to literature.

Greg Kucich  is Professor of English and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA. His publications include  Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism  (Penn State UP 1991) and numerous books and articles on the Keats-Hunt Circle, Romantic-era drama, and Romantic-era women writers.

Daniel Johnson  is English; Digital Humanities; and Film, Television, and Theatre Librarian at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He has published articles on long eighteenth-century literature and digital humanities. He also co-edited (with Beth Lau and Greg Kucich) a digital edition of Keats’s annotated copy of  Paradise Lost .