Lawrence M. Crutcher
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813136882
- eISBN:
- 9780813141411
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813136882.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This is a biography of George Keats, brother of the poet John Keats and a community leader in Louisville. The book examines how the boys’ troubled childhood in London, orphaned at early ages, linked ...
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This is a biography of George Keats, brother of the poet John Keats and a community leader in Louisville. The book examines how the boys’ troubled childhood in London, orphaned at early ages, linked them unusually closely, but also drove each to considerable accomplishment. The book provides the first in-depth analysis of George, heretofore a peripheral player in John Keats biographies. It rounds out a series of prior biographies on Fanny Keats, Fanny Brawne, Joseph Severn, James Leigh Hunt, Charles Brown, and other important influences on the poet's life. It also provides a new and detailed portrait of life in mercantile Louisville from 1818–1841, with a rich appendix describing George's friends, the community's leaders. The work includes nearly 100 images, most in color, from the period. A central theme is whether George Keats did as much for his brother, both in terms of financial support and in creating a legacy, as he might have. Another has to do with his influence on John's poetry. Fresh research describes his problematic relationship with the naturalist John J. Audubon. The Keats family finances are described with clarity.Less
This is a biography of George Keats, brother of the poet John Keats and a community leader in Louisville. The book examines how the boys’ troubled childhood in London, orphaned at early ages, linked them unusually closely, but also drove each to considerable accomplishment. The book provides the first in-depth analysis of George, heretofore a peripheral player in John Keats biographies. It rounds out a series of prior biographies on Fanny Keats, Fanny Brawne, Joseph Severn, James Leigh Hunt, Charles Brown, and other important influences on the poet's life. It also provides a new and detailed portrait of life in mercantile Louisville from 1818–1841, with a rich appendix describing George's friends, the community's leaders. The work includes nearly 100 images, most in color, from the period. A central theme is whether George Keats did as much for his brother, both in terms of financial support and in creating a legacy, as he might have. Another has to do with his influence on John's poetry. Fresh research describes his problematic relationship with the naturalist John J. Audubon. The Keats family finances are described with clarity.
Christoph Irmscher
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300222562
- eISBN:
- 9780300227758
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300222562.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
After a return of his mysterious backache, Max Eastman seeks a cure at Dr. Gehring’s sanatorium in Maine, where he falls for the beautiful Swedish maid/nurse Anna Carlson. He joins Crystal in New ...
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After a return of his mysterious backache, Max Eastman seeks a cure at Dr. Gehring’s sanatorium in Maine, where he falls for the beautiful Swedish maid/nurse Anna Carlson. He joins Crystal in New York, studies philosophy with John Dewey at Columbia University, and begins to teach as an associate instructor. During summers spent at Glenora he perfects his diving technique but cannot rid himself of his sexual inhibitions. In two searching essays he celebrates Walt Whitman as a sexual healer, learning to reject his mother’s insistence on spiritual purity. Moving in with Crystal, Max becomes interested in woman’s suffrage and helps found the Men’s League for Woman Suffrage in New York. Max becomes a sought-after and well-paid speaker at suffrage events, reinventing himself as a “man suffragette.” Dewey accepts one of Max’s essays on Plato in lieu of a dissertation. Plato’s struggle to reconcile his enjoyment of beauty with morality is a metaphor for Max’s own inner conflict; he never submits his dissertation. The painful death of Annis Ford Eastman in 1910 leaves Max and Crystal bereft.Less
After a return of his mysterious backache, Max Eastman seeks a cure at Dr. Gehring’s sanatorium in Maine, where he falls for the beautiful Swedish maid/nurse Anna Carlson. He joins Crystal in New York, studies philosophy with John Dewey at Columbia University, and begins to teach as an associate instructor. During summers spent at Glenora he perfects his diving technique but cannot rid himself of his sexual inhibitions. In two searching essays he celebrates Walt Whitman as a sexual healer, learning to reject his mother’s insistence on spiritual purity. Moving in with Crystal, Max becomes interested in woman’s suffrage and helps found the Men’s League for Woman Suffrage in New York. Max becomes a sought-after and well-paid speaker at suffrage events, reinventing himself as a “man suffragette.” Dewey accepts one of Max’s essays on Plato in lieu of a dissertation. Plato’s struggle to reconcile his enjoyment of beauty with morality is a metaphor for Max’s own inner conflict; he never submits his dissertation. The painful death of Annis Ford Eastman in 1910 leaves Max and Crystal bereft.
Robin Runia
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786940520
- eISBN:
- 9781789629170
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786940520.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Lord Glenthorn, of Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui (1809), suffers with a debilitating apathy and indifference unless continuously stimulated by external factors. Robin Runia reads this symptomatology within ...
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Lord Glenthorn, of Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui (1809), suffers with a debilitating apathy and indifference unless continuously stimulated by external factors. Robin Runia reads this symptomatology within the frame of late eighteenth-century definitions of hypochondriasis, which firmly associated the condition not just with the indolence of the wealthy but also with a foreign decadence. Trying to rid himself of his ennui, Glenthorn trials numerous fashionable activities of the wealthy but finds consolation only in the domestic sphere and the peaceable routines of his servants. Ennui is Edgeworth’s critique of the ‘rampant moral plague of luxury’, but, more importantly in offering a domestic remedy based on duty and the importance of home, it associates the health of the male body with the knowledge and culture of women.Less
Lord Glenthorn, of Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui (1809), suffers with a debilitating apathy and indifference unless continuously stimulated by external factors. Robin Runia reads this symptomatology within the frame of late eighteenth-century definitions of hypochondriasis, which firmly associated the condition not just with the indolence of the wealthy but also with a foreign decadence. Trying to rid himself of his ennui, Glenthorn trials numerous fashionable activities of the wealthy but finds consolation only in the domestic sphere and the peaceable routines of his servants. Ennui is Edgeworth’s critique of the ‘rampant moral plague of luxury’, but, more importantly in offering a domestic remedy based on duty and the importance of home, it associates the health of the male body with the knowledge and culture of women.
