LEADER 03666oam 2200745 c 450 001 9910781060603321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4411-0103-9 010 $a1-4742-1146-1 010 $a1-282-45303-3 010 $a1-4411-7091-X 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474211468 035 $a(CKB)2550000000005763 035 $a(EBL)476541 035 $a(OCoLC)593209858 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000339560 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11266672 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000339560 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10364593 035 $a(PQKB)10235544 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476541 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476541 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364052 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245303 035 $a(OCoLC)893334800 035 $a(OCoLC)1138657170 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09257453 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6158752 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1727306 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1727306 035 $a(OCoLC)893336636 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000005763 100 $a20091202d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKeats and negative capability$fLi Ou 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon $aNew York $cContinuum $d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 225 0 $aContinuum literary studies series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4411-8790-1 311 $a1-4411-4724-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [196]-202) and index 327 $aGenealogy of negative capability -- King Lear and negative capability -- Negative capability and Keat's poetry -- Modernist heritage of negative capability -- The tradition of negative capability 327 $aIntroduction: Anatomy of Negative Capability -- 1. Genealogy of Negative Capability -- 2. King Lear and Negative Capability -- 3. Negative Capability and Keats's Poetry -- 4. Modernist Heritage of Negative Capability -- Conclusion: The Tradition of Negative Capability  -- Bibliography -- Index 330 8 $a"Negative capability", the term John Keats used only once in a letter to his brothers, is a well-known but surprisingly unexplored concept in literary criticism and aesthetics. This book is the first book-length study of this central concept in seventy years. As well as clarifying the meaning of the term and giving an anatomy of its key components, the book gives a full account of the history of this idea. It traces the narrative of how the phrase first became known and gradually gained currency, and explores its primary sources in earlier writers, principally Shakespeare and William Hazlitt, and its chief Modernist successors, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Meanwhile, the term is also applied to Keats's own poetry, which manifests the evolution of the idea in Keats's poetic practice. Many of the comparative readings of the relevant texts, including King Lear, illuminate the interconnections between these major writers. The book is an original and significant piece of scholarship on this celebrated concept. 410 0$aContinuum literary studies. 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $2Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 606 $aUncertainty in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aUncertainty in literature. 676 $a821.7 700 $aOu$b Li$01525795 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781060603321 996 $aKeats and negative capability$93767398 997 $aUNINA