Description
John Keats' Medical Notebook: Text, Context and Poems reveals how Keats' visceral knowledge of human life, gained during his medical training at Guy's, transformed him into 'a mighty poet of the human heart'.
About the Author
Hrileena Ghosh is an independent scholar whose research interests lie in Romanticism and the relationship between literary and scientific thought throughout the long eighteenth century.
Reviews
Reviews 'John Keats's Medical Notebook is an ingenious roadmap to conceptual issues in the teaching of Romantic medicine; its informed annotations and originality of research reveal the depth of Keats's knowledge and comprehension of what he had learned in theoretical and practical medical science.'
Hermione de Almeida, Walter Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Tulsa
'Readers of Keats--and most assuredly not only those interested in Medicine--will find much of value in Ghosh's book. In clean, precise, and accessible prose that belies the depth of archival research that went into the book's making, Ghosh convincingly makes her case for a new focus on the medical Notebook, adding a fresh and forceful voice to those in the field arguing for renewed attention to the young Keats. If the medical Notebook "was a dynamic repository of evolving knowledge" for Keats, Ghosh's study will be one for us.'
James Robert Allard, Review 19
'John Keats' Medical Notebook is well written and well referenced... A scholarly contribution to the literature about Keats, the book provides new insights and analyses of his medical student days and how medical training influenced his brilliant and remarkable poetry.'
Arpan K. Banerjee, Hektoen International Journal
'There is a generosity in the care that has been taken in preparing this new edition that reveals an investment in the future work that will undoubtedly be generated by this project, as much as in its own attendant literary analysis.'
Meegan Hasted, European Romantic Review
'Ghosh's careful explications help guide the reader through the sometimes obscure and complex medical material, while the provision of concise biographical detail and relevant intellectual context of the people mentioned is also helpful. Clear explanations of terminology are not only essential for non-medical literary scholars, the contextualisation of nineteenth-century medical vocabulary will surely be welcomed, too, by those with a knowledge of modern-day medicine.' Octavia Cox, Romantic Textualities
Book Information
ISBN 9781802077025
Author Hrileena Ghosh
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press