John Keats and the medical imagination

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Label

John Keats and the medical imagination

Statement of responsibility

nicholas Roe

Contributor

• Roe, Nicholas

Subject

• American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism
• Diseases in literature
• Keats, John, 1795-1821
• Literature and medicine -- United States -- History -- 18th century
• Literature and medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Medical literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century
• Medical literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Medicine -- Philosophy | History -- 18th century
• Medicine -- Philosophy | History -- 19th century
• Medicine -- United States -- History -- 18th century

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Online access with purchase: Springer
• Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

810.9/356109033

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS217.M44

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine