Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations: 15 (Routledge Studies in Romanticism) - Hardcover

Shahidha K. Bari

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415888638 ISBN 13: 9780415888639

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

John Keats remains one of the most familiar and beloved of English poets, but has received surprisingly little critical attention in recent years. This study is a fresh contribution to Keats criticism and Romantic scholarship, positioning Keats as a figure of philosophical interest who warrants renewed attention.

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. The philosophical terms of analysis adopted here challenge the orthodoxies of Keats scholarship, traditionally characterised by the careful historicisation of a limited canon. The philosophical framework of analysis enhances the readings put forward, while Keats’s poems, in turn, serve to give fuller expression of those ideas themselves. Using Keats as a particular case, this book also demonstrates the ways in which theory and philosophy supplement literary scholarship.

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About the Author

Shahidha Kazi Bari is a lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415888638
• ISBN 13: 9780415888639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204