Literature and authenticity, 1780-1900
Subtitle: essays in honour of Vincent Newey
By: edited by Ashley Chantler, Michael Davies and Philip Shaw
Contributors: Chantler, Ashley; Shaw, Philip; Newey, Vincent
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780754665991
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; Theory; Truthfulness and falsehood in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Authentic narratives: Cowper and conversion / Michael Davies; title: Is he "well-authenticated"? Robert Southey and Anna Seward / Lynda Pratt; title: Undefinitive Keats / Nicholas Roe; title: "A kind of an excuse": Shelley and Wordsworth revisited / Michael O'Neill; title: Authenticity Projected: Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, and Cardinal Newman / Bernard Beatty; title: Byron, Candour, and the fear of lying / Philip W. Martin; title: A "gorgeous fabric": authentic images of India and the Orient in the works of British romantic women poets / A. R. Kidwai; title: Becoming Ruskin: travel writing and self-representation in Praeterita / Keith Hanley; title: Authorial, antiquarian, and acting authenticity in Henry Irving's King Lear / Richard Foulkes; title: The authentic voice of Elizabeth Gaskell / Joanne Shattock; title: Anthropology, bestial humour, and the communal authentic in Cranford / Nick Davis; title: Thoreau and Creeley: American words and things / Geoff Ward; title: The robust way: "the man said, no" / Philip Davis; title: From Cowper to Conrad: authenticity at the end of the century / Ashley Chantler; title: The authentic Vincent Newey: a note; title: Vincent Newey: A; title: Bibliography.