Keatss Negative Capability - New Origins and Afterlives

Few critical terms coined by poets are more famous than "negative capability." Though Keats uses the mysterious term only once, a consensus about its meaning has taken shape over the last two centuries. Keats's Negative Capability: New Origins and Afterlives offers alternative ways to approach and understand Keats's seductive term.

About the author

Brian Rejack is Associate Professor of English at Illinois State University.
Michael Theune is Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University.

Summary

Few critical terms coined by poets are more famous than “negative capability.” Though Keats uses the mysterious term only once, a consensus about its meaning has taken shape over the last two centuries. Keats’s Negative Capability: New Origins and Afterlives offers alternative ways to approach and understand Keats’s seductive term.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Theune Rejack
• Assisted by: Brian Rejack (Editor), Michael Theune (Editor)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781800856721
• ISBN: 978-1-80085-672-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies