- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Keats’s Coordinates
Pages 1-29
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Keats at Guy’s Hospital: Moments, Meetings, Choices and Poems
Pages 31-52
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Keats, the Vale of Health, and the Gentle Gendering of Cockney Coteries
Pages 53-70
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Keats, Shoots and Leaves
Pages 71-91
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‘The End and Aim of Poesy’: Keats and Shelley in Dialogue
Pages 93-113
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Keats's Places
- Editors
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- Richard Marggraf Turley
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-92243-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-92243-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-92242-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-06391-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 305
- Number of Illustrations
- 16 b/w illustrations
- Topics
