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Introduction:Reading negative capability, 1817-2017 /Brian Rejack and Michael Theune -Part I.'Swelling into reality' : new contexts for negative capability.1.Keats's negative capability : on pantomime and ìrritable reaching' /Brian Bates ;2.John Keats's Jeffrey's 'negative capability'; or, Accidentally undermining Keats /Brian Rejack ;3.Keats's 'negative capability' and Hazlitt's 'natural capacity' /Michael Theune ;4.'That strong excepted soul' : nineteenth-century women read Keats /Carmen Faye Mathes --Part II.'Examplified throughout' : forms of negatively capable reading.5.Negatively capable reading /Cassandra Falke ;6.Knowledge's 'gordian shape' : Keats and the disciplines /Kurtis Hessel ;7.'Irritable reaching' and the conditions of romantic mediation /Jeanne Britton ;8.'Uncertainties, mysteries, doubts' : pluralities and the historical present in Keats and Hazlitt /Emily Rohrbach --Part III.'Pursued through volumes', Volume I: Negative capability in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American poetry.9.Beyond the great divide : negative capability and postwar American poetics /Robert Archambeau ;10.Versions of negative capability in modern American poetry and criticism /Eric Eisner ;11.'Giddily off into the unknown' : negative capability and naturalism in Elizabeth Bishop's poetics /Arsevi Seyran ;12.'Darkling I listen' : Jorie Graham and negative capability /Thomas Gardner --Part. IV'Pursued through volumes', Volume II: Adaptations, appropriations, mutations.13.Negative capability in the twenty-first century and romantic self annihilation in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials /Suzanne L. Barnett ;14.Negative capability in psychoanalysis : Keats and retroactive judgment in Bion, Freud, Lacan, and Milner /David Sigler ;15.Zen and the art of negative capability /Anne C. McCarthy ;16.Negative capability in dialogic context /Walter L. Reed -Afterword:Reading Keats's negative capability /Jonathan Mulrooney.