Margaret Russett

Fictions and Fakes

Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760-1845

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Through original readings of works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Walter Scott, John Clare, and James Hogg, as well as impostors in popular culture, Russett's interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study offers a major reinterpretation of Romanticism and its continuing influence today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780521850780
• ISBN-10: 0521850789
• Artikelnr.: 21630085

Autorenporträt

Margaret Russett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

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.