Margaret Russett

Fictions and Fakes

Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760 1845

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2006 book is a major reinterpretation of how Romantic writers distinguished their fictions from the fakes surrounding them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780521123549
• ISBN-10: 0521123542
• Artikelnr.: 28108603

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.