Fictions and Fakes: Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760-1845

by Margaret Russett

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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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0521850789

ISBN13:9780521850780

Release Date:February 2006

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:278 Pages

Weight:1.18 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"

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