Overview
Features impressive line-up of internationally renowned Keats scholars
Investigates the relation between Keats’s real and imagined places
Demonstrates that that Keats’s travels were not only opportunities to retire and find a “fair atmosphere to think in” away from the noise and dirt of London, but also represented intellectually rigorous, emotionally impactful engagements with material conditions at various sites across Britain
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats’s places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were also shifting, uncanny, paradoxical spaces where the geographical comes into tension with the familial, the touristic with the medical, the metropolitan with the archipelagic. Collectively, the chapters in Keats’s Places range from the claustrophobic stands of Guy’s Hospital operating theatre to the boneshaking interior of the Southampton mail coach; from Highland crags to Hampstead Heath; from crowded city interiors to leafy suburban lanes. Offering new insights into the complex registrations of place and the poetic imagination, the contributors to this book explore how the significant places in John Keats’s life helped to shape an authorial identity.
Reviews
“The essays in this ranging and enlightening volume remind us that, however freely his imagination roamed, Keats remained, always, locally attached, and anchored in the living and breathing reality of the world in which he lived.” (Chris Townsend, The BARS Review, Vol. 55, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Richard Marggraf Turley is Professor of Romantic Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK. He is author of several books on the Romantic poets, including Keats’s Boyish Imagination (2004), Bright Stars: John Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic Literary Culture (2009), and with Jayne Archer and Howard Thomas, Food and the Literary Imagination (2015). He is also author of a novel set in 1810, The Cunning House (2015). In 2007, he won the Keats-Shelley Prize for poetry.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Keats's Places
Editors: Richard Marggraf Turley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92243-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92242-3Published: 14 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06391-7Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92243-0Published: 03 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 305
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics