Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-261) and index.
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Genuity or ingenuity? Invented tradition and the Scottish talent / Margaret Russett -- 'A blank made': Ossain, sincerity and the possibilities of forgery / Dafydd Moore -- Authenticity among hacks: Thomas Chatterton's 'Memoirs of a sad dog' and magazine culture / Daniel Cook -- The scandal of sincerity: Wordsworth, Byron, Landon / Angela Esterhammer -- Making sense of sincerity in The Prelude / Tim Milnes -- Too good to be true? Hannah More, authenticity, sincerity and evangelical abolitionism / Kerry Sinanan -- Sincerity's repetition: Carlyle, Tennyson and other repetitive Victorians / Jane Wright -- By its own hand: periodicals and the paradox of romantic authenticity / Sara Lodge -- Acts of insincerity? Thomas Spence and radical print culture in the 1790s / John Halliwell -- Austen, sincerity and the standard / Alex J. Dick -- 'Facts are such horrible things!': The question of authentic femininity in Jane Austen / Ashley Tauchert.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"The categories of authenticity and sincerity have been treated with scepticism since at least the early twentieth century, but they remain indispensable for the study of Romantic literature and culture. This book, focusing on authors including Byron, Coleridge and Austen, aims to relocate the terms within the context of current critical debates"--
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature.
English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.