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John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment Porscha Fermanis [Endorsements To Follow] 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,…mehr

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John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment Porscha Fermanis [Endorsements To Follow] 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. Porscha Fermanis is a lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her research interests include Enlightenment philosophy, Romantic historicism, and historical fiction. John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment is her first book.
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Porscha Fermanis is Associate Professor in Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her book publications include John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History (Routledge, 2016, with Carmen Casaliggi) and Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere (in press, Palgrave, June 2019, with Lara Atkin, Sarah Comyn, and Nathan Garvey).