Keats and History

Critical approaches to Keats's poems which place his work in historical and political context.

Nicholas Roe (Edited by)

9780521442459, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 March 1995

340 pages, 7 b/w illus.
23.2 x 15.8 x 3 cm, 0.7 kg

"Keats andistory provides original insight and judicious commentary to make the volume valuable; these essays will no doubt stimulate future scholarship and prompt a welcome debate over Keat's sense of history." Grant Scott, Studies in Romanticism

The poems of John Keats have traditionally been regarded as most resistant of all Romantic poetry to the concerns of history and politics. But critical trends have begun to overturn this assumption. Keats and History brings together exciting work by British and American scholars, in thirteen essays which respond to interest in the historical dimensions of Keats's poems and letters, and open alternative perspectives on his achievement. Keats's writings are approached through politics, social history, feminism, economics, historiography, stylistics, aesthetics, and mathematical theory. The editor's introduction places the volume in relation to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century readings of the poet. Keats and History will be welcomed by students of English literature, and by all those interested in English Romanticism.

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface and editor's acknowledgements
Abbreviations and a note on texts
1. Introduction Nicholas Roe
2. Keats enters history: autopsy, Adonais and the fame of Keats Susan J. Wolfson
3. Keats, the critics and the politics of envy Martin Aske
4. Charles Cowden Clarke's 'Cockney' commonplace book John Barnard
5. History, self and gender in Ode to Psyche Daniel P. Watkins
6. Isabella in the market-place: Keats and feminism Kelvin Everest
7. Keats, fictionality and finance: The Fall of Hyperion Terence Allan Hoagwood
8. 'When this warm scribe my hand': writing and history in Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion Michael O'Neill
9. Keats, history and the poets Vincent Newey
10. Keats's commonwealth Nicholas Roe
11. Keats, ekphrasis and history Theresa M. Kelley
12. Keats's literary tradition and the politics of historiographical invention Greg Kucich
13. Keats and the prison house of history Nicola Trott
14. Writing numbers: Keats, Hopkins and the history of chance John Kerrigan
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC]