Buch, Englisch, Band 64, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 459 g
Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760 1845
Buch, Englisch, Band 64, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 459 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
ISBN: 978-0-521-12354-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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. The 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.
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Weitere Infos & Material
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.
