Keats, narrative, and audience: the posthumous life of writing /​ Andrew Bennett

Title

• Keats, narrative, and audience : the posthumous life of writing / Andrew Bennett.

Author

• Bennett, Andrew, 1960-

Published

• Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Content Types

• text

Carrier Types

• volume

Physical Description

• xii, 254 p. ; 24 cm cartonata cu supracoperta

Series

• Cambridge studies in Romanticism
• Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 6.

Subjects

• Keats, John, 1795-1821.
• Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Criticism and interpretation.
• Keats, John, 1795-1821. -- Criticism and interpretation.
• Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Critique et interprétation.
• Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Appréciation.
• Keats, John.
• Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Technique.
• Rezeption.
• Geschichte.
• Rezeptionsästhetik.
• Erzählen.
• Leser.
• Écrivains et lecteurs -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
• Esthétique de la réception.
• Romantisme -- Angleterre.
• Authors and readers.
• Narrative poetry, English.
• Romanticism.
• Technique.
• Lezers.
• Vertelkunst.
• Écrivains et lecteurs -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle.
• Romantisme -- Angleterre (GB)
• Narrative poetry, English -- History and criticism.
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Narration.
• Reader-response criticism.
• Authors and readers -- England -- History -- 19th century.
• Romanticism -- England.
• England.
• English poetry

Summary

• 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. In particular, it explores the way in which Romantic writing figures reception as necessarily deferred to a time after the poet's death: reading as the 'posthumous life' of writing. 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.

Contents

• 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

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

Language

• English