Excited to announce my first peer-reviewed article ‘Scalpels and Sonnets: John Keats, Thomas Wakley, and Corruption in Early Nineteenth-Century London Medical Schools’ has been published by Essays in Romanticism! You can read it here: doi.org/10.3828/eir....
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Scalpels and Sonnets: John Keats, Thomas Wakley, and Corruption in Early Nineteenth-Century London Medical Schools | Essays in Romanticism
John Keats’s departure from medical school has long been a source of debate among scholars, with many positing that a lack of constitution drove him away from a promising surgical career. This paper examines the medical landscape within which Keats found ...
