John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment / / Porscha Fermanis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Fermanis, Porscha,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748637805);John Keats is generally considered to be the least intellectually sophisticated of all the major Romantic poets, but he was a more serious thinker than either his contemporaries or later scholars have acknowledged. This book provides a major reassessment of Keats's intellectual life by considering his engagement with a formidable body of eighteenth-century thought from the work of Voltaire, Robertson, and Gibbon to Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith.The book re-examines some of Keats's most important poems, including The Eve of St Agnes, Hyperion, Lamia, and Ode to Psyche, in the light of a range of Enlightenment ideas and contexts from literary history and cultural progress to anthropology, political economy, and moral philosophy. By demonstrating that the language and ideas of the Enlightenment played a key role in establishing his poetic agenda, Keats's poetry is shown to be less the expression of an intuitive young genius than the product of the cultural and intellectual contexts of his time.Key FeaturesThe first book-length consideration of the relationship between Keats and the ideas of theEnlightenmentNew and distinctive argument about Keats reassessing his intellectual life and contextsContributes to our understanding of the relationship between the Romantic period and the eighteenth century/Enlightenment, currently one of the most important debates in literary scholarshipWide appeal to scholars, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates of eighteenth-century and Romantic period literature, history and philosophy; cultural and intellectual historians; historians of ideas"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Keats, Enlightenment and Romanticism -- Chapter 1 Ancients and Moderns: Literary History and the ‘Grand March of Intellect’ in Keats’s Letters and the 1817 Poems -- Chapter 2 Civil Society: Sentimental History and Enlightenment Socialisation in Endymion and The Eve of St. Agnes -- Chapter 3 The Science of Man: Anthropological Speculation and Stadial Theory in Hyperion -- Chapter 4 Political Economy: Commerce, Civic Tradition and the Luxury Debate in Isabella and Lamia -- Chapter 5 Moral Philosophy: Sympathetic Identification, Utility and the Natural History of Religion in The Fall of Hyperion -- Afterword: Ode to Psyche and Ode on a Grecian Urn -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index