Wednesday,
November 2, 2011
A conversation with Stanford professor of English literature Denise
Gigante on the life and poetry of John Keats
and his relationship with his family, in particular, with one of his
brothers, George Keats.
Outro
Music: Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings"
Performed by James Galway (flute) and Hiro Fujikake (synthesizer)
| Denise
Gigante is a professor in the English Department at Stanford University
and teaches eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature with a
focus on Romanticism. Her books include "The Keats Brothers: The Life
of John and George" (Harvard UP, 2011), "Life: Organic Form and
Romanticism" (Yale UP, 2009), "The Great Age of the English Essay: An
Anthology" (Yale UP, 2008), "Taste: A Literary History" (Yale
UP, 2005), and "Gusto: Essential Writings in Nineteenth-Century
Gastronomy" (Routledge, 2005). She has published several essays,
notably on Milton (Diacritics), Blake (Nineteenth-Century Literature),
Coleridge (European Romantic Review), Keats (PMLA), Sartre and Beckett
(Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net), Tennyson (NCL), Mary Shelley
(ELH), and the philosopher Slavoj Zizek (New Literary History). She is
currently working on a new book entitled The Book Madness: Charles
Lamb's Midnight Darlings in New York, which is forthcoming from Harvard
University Press. |