John Keats and the Medical Imagination (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)

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-- Introduction / Nicholas Roe -- John Keats’s ‘guy’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 Botanist’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 -- Keats’s Killing Breath: Paradigms Of A Pathography / Damian Walford Davies. Nicholas Roe, Editor. Contains Ten Chapters, Originally Presented To The Keats Foundation Bicentenary Conference At Guy's Hospital, London, In May 2015. The Conference Theme Was 'john Keats: Poet-physician, Physician-poet', Marking 200 Years Since Keats Enrolled At Guy's In October 1815.--page 1. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Acknowledgements 7 Contents 8 Editor and Contributors 10 Abbreviations 13 List of Figures 15 Chapter 1 Introduction 17 Works Cited 34 Chapter 2 John Keats’s ‘Guy’s Hospital’ Poetry 37 Works Cited 55 Chapter 3 The Beauty of Bodysnatching 58 References 70 Chapter 4 Mr. Keats 71 Works Cited 85 Chapter 5 John Keats in the Context of the Physical Society, Guy’s Hospital, 1815–1816 87 Works Cited 102 Chapter 6 John Keats, the Botanist’s Companion 105 Works Cited 120 Chapter 7 John Keats, Medicine, and Young Men on the Make 122 Works Cited 139 Chapter 8 Keats, Mourning and Melancholia 142 Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil 153 Works Cited 164 Chapter 9 ‘The Feel of Not to Feel It’: The Life of Non-sensation in Keats 166 Works Cited 184 Chapter 10 Objects of Suspicion: Keats, ‘To Autumn’ and the Psychology of Romantic Surveillance 186 10.1 The Beautiful Fabric of Love 188 10.2 Every Event Suspicious 190 10.3 Stopped from Curiosity 194 10.4 Passing by 196 10.5 Shadowy Things 205 10.6 Who Hath not Seen Thee? 209 Works Cited 215 Chapter 11 Keats’s Killing Breath: Paradigms of a Pathography 219 11.1 Pathological Paradigms 219 11.2 Phenomenologies of Breath and ‘Knowledge Enormous’ 225 11.3 Apollonian Paradox and Early Textual Tubercles: ‘Ode to Apollo’ to ‘After Dark Vapours’ 227 11.4 1818: Mists and Hyperion’s ‘Giant-Malady’ 232 11.5 ‘Teasing’ Fanny, Teasing Fantasies, 1819 237 11.6 ‘Don’t Breath [sic] on Me’ 244 Works Cited 252 Index 255 Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Introduction (Nicholas Roe)....Pages 1-20 John Keats’s ‘Guy’s Hospital’ Poetry (Hrileena Ghosh)....Pages 21-41 The Beauty of Bodysnatching (Druin Burch)....Pages 43-55 Mr. Keats (Nicholas Roe)....Pages 57-72 John Keats in the Context of the Physical Society, Guy’s Hospital, 1815–1816 (John Barnard)....Pages 73-90 John Keats, the Botanist’s Companion (Nikki Hessell)....Pages 91-107 John Keats, Medicine, and Young Men on the Make (Jeffrey N. Cox)....Pages 109-128 Keats, Mourning and Melancholia (R. S. White)....Pages 129-152 ‘The Feel of Not to Feel It’: The Life of Non-sensation in Keats (Stuart Curran)....Pages 153-172 Objects of Suspicion: Keats, ‘To Autumn’ and the Psychology of Romantic Surveillance (Richard Marggraf Turley)....Pages 173-205 Keats’s Killing Breath: Paradigms of a Pathography (Damian Walford Davies)....Pages 207-242 Back Matter ....Pages 243-262 "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"-- Provided by publisher Annotation 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