Overview
Explores Keats’s debt to earlier texts and his impact on later writers
Features essays by major scholars as well as poetry by three accomplished contemporary scholar-poets
Celebrates the career of distinguished Keats scholar Jack Stillinger
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theorizing Keats’s Reading
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Keats’s Reading
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Contemporary Poetic Responses
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About this book
This book explores John Keats’s reading practices and intertextual dialogues with other writers. It also examines later writers’ engagements with Keats’s poetry. Finally, the book honors the distinguished Keats scholar Jack Stillinger and includes an essay surveying his career as well as a bibliography of his major publications. The first section of the volume, “Theorizing Keats’s Reading,” contains four essays that identify major patterns in the poet’s reading habits and responses to other works. The next section, “Keats’s Reading,” consists of six essays that examine Keats’s work in relation to specific earlier authors and texts. The four essays in the third section, “Reading Keats,” consider how Keats’s poetry influenced the work of later writers and became embedded in British and American literary traditions. The final section of the book, “Contemporary Poetic Responses,” features three scholar-poets who, in poetry and/or prose commentary, discuss and exemplify Keats’s impact on their work.
Reviews
- Jeffrey Cox, Professor of English & Humanities, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Beth Lau is Professor of English Emerita at California State University, Long Beach, USA. She has published numerous studies of Keats’s books, reading, and marginalia, including Keats’s Reading of the Romantic Poets (1991) and Keats’s Paradise Lost (1998). Her other research interests include Jane Austen and cognitive-evolutionary approaches to literature.
Greg Kucich is Professor of English and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA. His publications include Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism (Penn State UP 1991) and numerous books and articles on the Keats-Hunt Circle, Romantic-era drama, and Romantic-era women writers.
Daniel Johnson is English; Digital Humanities; and Film, Television, and Theatre Librarian at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He has published articles on long eighteenth-century literature and digital humanities. He also co-edited (with Beth Lau and Greg Kucich) a digital edition of Keats’s annotated copy of Paradise Lost.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats
Book Subtitle: Essays in Memory of Jack Stillinger
Editors: Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, Daniel Johnson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79530-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79529-0Published: 13 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79532-0Published: 14 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79530-6Published: 12 February 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 362
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature, European Literature