John Keats and the Medical Imagination

You must be logged in to access this title.

Sign up now

Already a member? Log in

Synopsis

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.

Book details

Edition:
1st ed. 2017
Series:
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Author:
Nicholas Roe
ISBN:
9783319638119
Related ISBNs:
9783319638102
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2021-11-04
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2017
Copyright by:
The Editor 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Poetry