Fictions and fakes : forging romantic authenticity, 1760-1845
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Fictions and fakes : forging romantic authenticity, 1760-1845
（Cambridge studies in romanticism, 64）
Cambridge University Press, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-251) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
British Romantic literature descends from a line of impostors, forgers and frauds. Through a series of case-studies - beginning with the golden age of forgery in the late eighteenth century and continuing through canonical Romanticism and its aftermath - Margaret Russett demonstrates how Romantic writers distinguished their fictions from the fakes surrounding them. This 2006 book examines canonical and lesser-known Romantic works alongside fakes such as Thomas Chatterton's medieval poems and 'Caraboo', the impostor-princess. Through original readings of works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Walter Scott, John Clare, and James Hogg, as well as chapters on impostors in popular culture, Russett's interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study offers a major reinterpretation of Romanticism and its continuing influence today.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. From fake to fiction: toward a Romantic theory of imposture
- 2. Chatterton's primal scene of writing
- 3. Unconscious plagiarism: from 'Christabel' to the Lay of the Last Minstrel
- 4. The delusions of Hope
- 5. The 'Caraboo' hoax: Romantic woman as mirror and mirage
- 6. Clare Byron
- 7. The Gothic violence of the letter
- Bibliography.
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