Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats: Essays in Memory of Jack Stillinger

ISBN-13: 9783030795320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 362 str.

Beth Lau; Greg Kucich; Daniel Johnson

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"Keats's Reading / Reading Keats is a gathering of seventeen chapters that celebrate not just Keats, but also Jack Stillinger, who passed away in 2020. This memorial volume is, then, not intentionally set off by the various Keats bicentenaries, but it does act as a kind of capstone to them. ... Keats's Reading / Reading Keats is divided into four topical sections, which are fully diverse within themselves ... ." (G. Kim Blank, European Romantic Review, Vol. 34 (4), August, 2023)

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Theorizing Keats’s Reading

2. Keats the Reader

3. Keats's Metaphor of Reading

4. Keats's Translational Poetics

5. Rereading Keats's Reading in the Digital Realm.

Keats’s Reading

6. “Jack a Lanthern” Verse: Of Pots and Precursors and Poetic Value in Isabella

7. Keats Reading Chaucer: Troilus and Arrested Time in The Eve of St. Agnes

8. Keats’s Confrontation with Nothingness in “When I Have Fears” and Other Poems 

9. Seeing Spots: Milton, Addison, Keats, and the Emergence of the Sublime Pathetic 

10. Keats as a Reader of Novels

Reading Keats

11. Late Reading: John Clare and John Keats

12. Keats’s Formal Legacy and the Victorians

13. “A Season Changes Color to No End”: Keats’s “To Autumn,” Wallace Stevens, and the Post-Romantic Imagination

14. Modern Experimental Poets Reading Keats: “Misers of Sound and Syllable”

Contemporary Poetic Responses

15. The Chameleon Poet

16. Writing on Keats, Writing with Keats: Ghostlier Intonations, Marginalia, and Epigraphs Among Friends—Or, My Keats

17. Poems 

O autorze

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.