Keats and Materiality

What is it about?

This paper situates Keats in theories of Romantic matter of the period. Deconstruction has misunderstood the Romantic understanding of matter. The poet's training as an apothecary familiarized him with then theories of matter.

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Why is it important?

The paper asks what critics want materiality to do for Keats studies, and argues for a movement away from determinist ideas of materiality and toward ideas of materialist possibility.