Contents

pp v-vii

List of Figures

pp viii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

List of Abbreviations

pp xi-xii

List of Contributors

pp xiii-xvi

Preface

pp xvii-xxii

Introduction: Disquisitions: Reading Negative Capability, 1817–2017

pp 1-12

Part I - ‘swelling into reality’: New Contexts for Negative Capability

pp 13-14

1 - Keats's Negative Capability: On Pantomime and ‘Irritable Reaching’

pp 15-30

2 - John Keats's Jeffrey's ‘Negative Capability’; or, Accidentally Undermining Keats

pp 31-46

3 - Keats's ‘Negative Capability’ and Hazlitt's ‘Natural Capacity’

pp 47-59

4 - ‘that strong excepted soul’: Nineteenth-Century Women Read Keats

pp 60-76

Part II - ‘examplified throughout’: Forms of Negatively Capable Reading

pp 77-78

5 - Negatively Capable Reading

pp 79-92

6 - Knowledge's ‘gordian shape’: Keats and the Disciplines

pp 93-107

7 - ‘Irritable Reaching’ and the Conditions of Romantic Mediation

pp 108-121

8 - ‘uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts’: Pluralities and the Historical Present in Keats and Hazlitt

pp 122-136

Part III - ‘pursued through Volumes’, Volume I: Negative Capability in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Poetry

pp 137-138

9 - Beyond the Great Divide: Negative Capability and Postwar American Poetics

pp 139-153

10 - Versions of Negative Capability in Modern American Poetry and Criticism

pp 154-170

11 - ‘giddily off into the unknown’: Negative Capability and Naturalism in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics

pp 171-183

12 - ‘Darkling I listen’: Jorie Graham and Negative Capability

pp 184-200

Part IV - ‘pursued through Volumes’, Volume II: Adaptations, Appropriations, Mutations

pp 201-202

13 - Negative Capability in the Twenty-First Century and Romantic Self Annihilation in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials

pp 203-215

14 - Negative Capability in Psychoanalysis: Keats and Retroactive Judgment in Bion, Freud, Lacan, and Milner

pp 216-231

15 - Zen and the Art of Negative Capability

pp 232-244

16 - Negative Capability in Dialogic Context

pp 245-258

Afterword: Reading Keats's Negative Capability

pp 259-262

Bibliography

pp 263-280