Fictions and Fakes: Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760-1845 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) [Hardcover]

Margaret Russett (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0521850789 | ISBN-13: 978-0521850780 | Publication Date: February 27, 2006

British Romantic literature descends from a line of impostors, forgers and frauds. 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 includes 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 in the present.

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Review of the hardback: '... a stimulating and varied compendium which illuminates, though it does not fully explore, a fundamentally important aspect of Romantic literature.' Times Literary Supplement

Review of the hardback: '... one of the most stimulating books in studies in British Romanticism to have appeared in recent years. Margaret Russett succeeds in refocusing the general field of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writing around the topic of literary and cultural fakes, forgeries, plagiarisms and hoaxes, which she locates at the heart of the Romantic project.' Studies in Hogg and his World

Book 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. Th rough 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.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 276 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (February 27, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521850789
• ISBN-13: 978-0521850780
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,328,422 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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