John Keats and the ideas of the Enlightenment / [electronic resource]
Fermanis, Porscha,1975-author.
This innovative study provides a major reassessment of Keats's intellectual life by considering his often overlooked engagement with a formidable body of eighteenth-century thought.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-206) and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Introduction : Keats, enlightenment and romanticism -- Ancients and moderns : literary history and the 'grand march of intellect' in Keats's Letters and the 1817 Poems -- Civil society : sentimental history and enlightenment socialisation in Endymion and The eve of St. Agnes -- The science of man : anthropological speculation and stadial theory in Hyperion -- Political economy : commerce, civic tradition and the luxury debate in Isabella and Lamia -- 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.
This innovative study provides a major reassessment of Keats's intellectual life by considering his often overlooked engagement with a formidable body of eighteenth-century thought.
Keats, John, 1795-1821
Enlightenment.
Literature and society