Keats and Scepticism

Keats and Scepticism explores Keats’s affinity with the philosophical tradition of scepticism and reads Keats’s poetry anew in the light of this affinity.

Li Ou, PhD in English (Literary Studies), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, is Associate Professor in the Department of English, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Keats and Negative Capability (2009), ’Keats, Sextus Empiricus, and Medicine’ (Romanticism 22:2 (2016), 167-76), ’Keats’s Afterlife in Twentieth-Century China’ (English Romanticism in East Asia: A Romantic Circles PRAXIS Volume, 2016), ’Romantic, Rebel, and Reactionary: The Metamorphosis of Byron in Twentieth-Century China’ (British Romanticism in Asia, 2019), ’Two Chinese Wordsworths: The Reception of Wordsworth in Twentieth-Century China’ (Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts, Routledge, 2019), and ’Keats, Montaigne, and Hamlet’ (East-West Dialogues: The Transferability of Concepts in the Humanities, 2021). Her research interests include Romantic poetry, especially that of Keats, and cultural/literary relations between Greater China and Britain.