Keats, narrative, and audience : the posthumous life of writing

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Keats, narrative, and audience : the posthumous life of writing

Andrew Bennett

(Cambridge studies in romanticism, 6)

Cambridge University Press, 2006, c1994

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"This digitally printed first paperback version 2006"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-249) and index

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Description

Andrew Bennett's original study of Keats focuses on questions of narrative and audience as a means to offer new readings of the major poems. It discusses ways in which reading is 'figured' in Keats's poetry, and suggests that such 'figures of reading' have themselves determined certain modes of response to Keats's texts. Together with important new readings of Keats's poetry, the study presents a significant rethinking of the relationship between Romantic poetry and its audience. Developing recent discussions in literary theory concerning narrative, readers and reading, the nature of the audience for poetry, and the Romantic 'invention' of posterity, Bennett elaborates a sophisticated and historically specific reconceptualization of Romantic writing.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction: figures of reading
  • 1. Narrative and audience in Romantic poetics
  • 2. Keats's letters
  • 3. The early verse and Endymion
  • 4. 'Isabella'
  • 5. 'The Eve of St Agnes'
  • 6. 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'
  • 7. The spring odes
  • 8. The 'Hyperion' poems
  • 9. 'To Autumn'
  • Epilogue: allegories of Reading ('Lamia')
  • Notes
  • Bibliography, Index.

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