Title: Thomas Chatterton and romantic culture
Description: "Thomas Chatterton wrote poetry, forged medieval manuscripts, and died in tragic and mysterious circumstanceseither adolescent suicide or accidental drug overdose.".

"This book restores Chatterton as a seminal figure in English literature. It is a major collection of diverse new essays by writers, biographers, critics, and scholars, showing the mercurial Chatterton in new contexts, perpetually challenging the genres of writing: ultimately mixing history, fiction, and myth in a great post-Enlightenment reinvention of the past."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Literary forgeries and mystifications, Literature and history, History, Criticism and interpretation, Medievalism, Middle Ages in literature, Romanticism, Chatterton, thomas, 1752-1770
Places: England
People: Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
Time periods: 18th century