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John Keats: Reimagining History
William A. Ulmer
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Description for John Keats: Reimagining History
Hardcover. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book considers Keats’s major poems as exercises in Romantic historicism. The poetry’s rich allusiveness represents Keats’s effort to reclaim the British canon for Cockney revisionism, and reveals Keats characteristically invoking the past to define his contemporary cultural politics. The book begins by discussing Keats’s Cockney traditionalism in its Regency context and then proceeds through the poet’s career in chronological order. There are chapters on history and vocation in the poet’s first volume, the failed idealism of 'Endymion', gender and audience in the Medieval Romances, the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' in historical context, secularism and consolation in the other ... Read more
This book considers Keats’s major poems as exercises in Romantic historicism. The poetry’s rich allusiveness represents Keats’s effort to reclaim the British canon for Cockney revisionism, and reveals Keats characteristically invoking the past to define his contemporary cultural politics. The book begins by discussing Keats’s Cockney traditionalism in its Regency context and then proceeds through the poet’s career in chronological order. There are chapters on history and vocation in the poet’s first volume, the failed idealism of 'Endymion', gender and audience in the Medieval Romances, the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' in historical context, secularism and consolation in the other ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319470832
SKU
V9783319470832
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About William A. Ulmer
William A. Ulmer is Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA. He is the author of books on Percy B. Shelley and William Wordsworth, and of numerous essays on Romantic period texts and issues.
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