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Keats's Negative Capability - New Origins and Afterlives (Hardcover)
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Keats's Negative Capability - New Origins and Afterlives (Hardcover)
Series: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850, 6
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In late December 1817, when attempting to name "what quality went
to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature," John Keats
coined the term "negative capability," which he glossed as "being
in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching
after fact & reason." Since then negative capability has
continued to shape assessments of and responses to Keats's work,
while also surfacing in other contexts ranging from contemporary
poetry to punk rock. The essays collected in this volume, taken as
a whole, account for some of the history of negative capability,
and propose new models and directions for its future in scholarly
and popular discourse. The book does not propose a particular
understanding of negative capability from among the many options
(radical empathy, annihilation of self, philosophical skepticism,
celebration of ambiguity) as the final word on the topic; rather,
the book accounts for the multidimensionality of negative
capability. Essays treat negative capability's relation to topics
including the Christmas pantomime, psychoanalysis, Zen Buddhism,
nineteenth-century medicine, and Philip Pullman's His Dark
Materials trilogy. Describing the "poetical Character" Keats notes
that "it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it foul or
fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated." This book, too,
revels in such multiplicity.
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