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. INDICE: - Contents - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - List of Abbreviations - 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 - Authenticity Among Hacks: Thomas Chatterton's 'Memoirs of a Sad Dog' and Magazine Culture; D.Cook - PART II: ACTS OF SINCERITY - The Scandal of Sincerity: Wordsworth, Byron, Landon; A.Esterhammer - Making Sense of Sincerity inThe Prelude ; T.Milnes - Too Good to be True? Hannah More, Sincerity, and Evangelical Abolitionism; K.Sinanan - Sincerity's Repetition: Carlyle, Tennyson and Other Repetitive Victorians; J.Wright - PART III: MARKETING THE GENUINE - By Its Own Hand: Periodicals and the Paradox of Romantic Authenticity; S.Lodge - Acts of Insincerity? Thomas Spence and Radical Print Culture in the 1790s; J.Halliwell - PART IV: THE CASE OF AUSTEN - Austen, Sincerity and the Standard;A.J.Dick - 'Facts are Such Horrible Things!': The Question of Authentic Femininity in Jane Austen; A.Tauchert - Notes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20893-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 25/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés