Title
This Living Hand: Bright Star and the Etsy Effect
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2020
Abstract
This essay argues that the Keats portrayed in Jane Campion’s Bright Star is a product of the twenty-first century’s Etsy culture—and that this portrayal, if somewhat surprising or even counterintuitive, effectively captures Keats’s understanding of the relationship between poetic making and imperfection. The paper both compares Keats’s presence on the handicraft-marketing platform Etsy.com to his characterization in Campion’s hand-centric film and identifies the ways in which the Keats of contemporary popular culture has become an appealing and textually reasonable model for entrepreneurial crafters and other aspiring artisans.
Publisher
University of Colorado Boulder
Repository Citation
Tontiplaphol, B. W. (2020). This living hand: Bright Star and the Etsy effect. Keats in Popular Culture.
Publication Information
Keats in Popular Culture