Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity [electronic resource] /
Milnes, T.editor.
Sinanan, K.editor.
The categories of authenticity and sincerity, treated sceptically since the early twentieth century, remain indispensable for the study of Romantic literature and culture. This book, focusing on authors including Wordsworth, Macpherson and Austen, highlights their complexities, showing how they can become meaningful to current critical debates.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note:  -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction--K.Sinanan &--T.Milnes -- PART I: FORGING AUTHENTICITY -- Genuity or Ingenuity? Invented Tradition and the Scottish Talent--M.Russett -- 'A Blank Made': Ossian, Authenticity, and the Possibilities of Forgery--D.Moore -- The Truth about Boys and Dogs: Thomas Chatterton Plays the Antiquary--D.Cook -- PART II: ACTS OF SINCERITY -- The Scandal of Sincerity: Wordsworth, Byron, Landon--A.Esterhammer -- The Problem of Sincerity in Abolitionism: Hannah More and John Newton--K.Sinanan -- Sincerity, Authenticity, and the Unthought--T.Milnes -- Sincerity's Reputation--J.Wright -- PART III: THE CHALLENGE OF PRINT -- Acts of Insincerity? Thomas Spence and Radical Print Culture in the 1790s--J.Halliwell -- By Its Own Hands: Periodicals and the Paradox of Romantic Authenticity--S.Lodge -- PART IV: THE CASE OF AUSTEN -- The Anxiety of Authenticity in Jane Austen's Romantic Realism--A.Tauchert -- Silence is Golden: Sincerity and the Standard in Austen--A.J.Dick -- Afterword--N.Groom -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
The categories of authenticity and sincerity, treated sceptically since the early twentieth century, remain indispensable for the study of Romantic literature and culture. This book, focusing on authors including Wordsworth, Macpherson and Austen, highlights their complexities, showing how they can become meaningful to current critical debates.
British literature.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Fiction.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.