Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Kerry Sinanan, Tim Milnes

      Pages 1-28

3. Forging Authenticity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Genuity or Ingenuity? Invented Tradition and the Scottish Talent

      • Margaret Russett

      Pages 31-57

   3. ‘A Blank Made’: Ossian, Sincerity and the Possibilities of Forgery

      • Dafydd Moore

      Pages 58-79

   4. Authenticity among Hacks: Thomas Chatterton’s ‘Memoirs of a Sad Dog’ and Magazine Culture

      • Daniel Cook

      Pages 80-98

4. Acts of Sincerity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. The Scandal of Sincerity: Wordsworth, Byron, Landon

      • Angela Esterhammer

      Pages 101-119

   3. Making Sense of Sincerity in The Prelude

      • Tim Milnes

      Pages 120-136

   4. Too Good to be True? Hannah More, Authenticity, Sincerity and Evangelical Abolitionism

      • Kerry Sinanan

      Pages 137-161

   5. Sincerity’s Repetition: Carlyle, Tennyson and Other Repetitive Victorians

      • Jane Wright

      Pages 162-181

5. Marketing the Genuine

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. By Its Own Hand: Periodicals and the Paradox of Romantic Authenticity

      • Sara Lodge

      Pages 185-200

   3. Acts of Insincerity? Thomas Spence and Radical Print Culture in the 1790s

      • John Halliwell

      Pages 201-218

6. The Case of Austen

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. Austen, Sincerity and the Standard

      • Alex J. Dick

      Pages 221-237

   3. ‘Facts are Such Horrible Things!’: The Question of Authentic Femininity in Jane Austen

      • Ashley Tauchert

      Pages 238-259

7. Back Matter

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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.

• English literature
• Jane Austen
• Romanticism
• Tennyson
• twentieth century
• Victorian era
• William Wordsworth
• Wordsworth
• British and Irish Literature

'When understanding Romanticism, 'Sincerity' and 'Authenticity ' are crucial concepts. Drawing particularly on the subjective or objective implications (not to mention the fruitful ambiguities) involved, the writers here find themselves considering relevant aspects of many 'Romantic' writers, from Macpherson and Chatterton to Wordsworth and Jane Austen, in new and absorbing ways.'

- John Beer, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Cambridge, UK.

• University of Edinburgh, UK

  Tim Milnes

• University of the West of England, UK

  Kerry Sinanan

DANIEL COOK PhD student at Queens' College, University of Cambridge, UK ALEX DICK Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada ANGELA ESTERHAMMER Distinguished University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Western Ontario, Canada JOHN HALLIWELL Secretary for the Centre for Romantic Studies at the University of Bristol, UK SARA LODGE Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews, UK. TIM MILNES Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK DAFYDD MOORE Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth, UK MARGARET RUSSETT Professor of English at the University of Southern California, USA KERRY SINANAN Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the West of England, UK ASHLEY TAUCHERT Associate Professor of English at the University of Exeter, UK JANE WRIGHT Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol, UK

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