Keats and History [Paperback]

Critical approaches to Keats's poems which place his work in historical and political context.Keats and History overturns assumptions about the historical and political concerns of Keats's poems by bringing together exciting new work by British and American scholars. Thirteen essays address the historical dimensions of Keats's poems and letters, and open fresh perspectives on his achievement. Keats's writings are approached through politics, social history, feminism, economics, historiography, stylistics, aesthetics, and mathematical theory.Keats and History will be welcomed by all those interested in English Romanticism.Keats and History overturns assumptions about the historical and political concerns of Keats's poems by bringing together exciting new work by British and American scholars. Thirteen essays address the historical dimensions of Keats's poems and letters, and open fresh perspectives on his achievement. Keats's writings are approached through politics, social history, feminism, economics, historiography, stylistics, aesthetics, and mathematical theory.Keats and History will be welcomed by all those interested in English Romanticism.Keats and History overturns assumptions about the historical and political concerns of Keats' poems by bringing together exciting new work by British and American scholars. Thirteen essays address the historical dimensions of Keats' poems and letters, and open fresh perspectives on his achievement. Keats' writings are approached through politics, social history, feminism, economics, historiography, stylistics, aesthetics, and mathematical theory.List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface and editor's acknowledgements; Abbreviations and a note on texts; 1. Introduction Nicholas Roe; 2. Keats enters history: autopsy, Adonais and the fame of Keats Susan J. Wolfson; 3. Keats, the critics and the politics of envy Martin Aske; 4. Charles Cowden Clarke's 'Cockney' commonplƒ-