John Keats and the medical imagination /
Contributor(s): Roe, Nicholas [editor.].
Series: Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine.Publisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019Description: xviii, 262 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9783319876429; 9783319876429:; 3319876422.Subject(s): Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Criticism and interpretation | Medicine in literatureDDC classification: 821.7Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 821.7 ROE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0081901 |
Originally published: 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Nicholas Roe -- John Keats's 'Guys's Hospital' Poetry / Hrileena Ghosh -- The beauty of bodysnatching / Druin Burch -- Mr. Keats / Nicholas Roe -- John Keats in the context of the physical society, Guy's Hospital, 1815-1816 / John Barnard -- John Keats, the botantist's companion / Nikki Hessell -- John Keats, medicine, and young men on the make / Jeffrey N. Cox -- Keats, mourning and melancholia / R. S. White -- 'The feel of not to feel it' : the life of non-sensation in Keats / Stuart Curran -- Objects of suspicion : Keats, 'To Autumn' and the psychology of romantic surveillance / Richard Marggraf Turley -- Keat's killing breath : paradigms of a pathography / Damian Walford Davies.
Presenting ten chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, this text begins with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17.