This book explores the false starts and disturbances of Romantic writing in Britain - 'misfits' and misfittings - as both a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a distinctive literary field worth examining on its own account. Misfits...
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This book explores the false starts and disturbances of Romantic writing in Britain - 'misfits' and misfittings - as both a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a distinctive literary field worth examining on its own account. Misfits include the Shakespeare forger W.H. Ireland, the novel itself, and the culture of Dissent. This book explores the false starts and disturbances of Romantic writing in Britain - 'misfits' and misfittings - as both a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a distinctive literary field worth examining on its own account. Misfits include the Shakespeare forger W.H. Ireland, the novel itself, and the culture of Dissent
Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-237) index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Original Misfit: The Shakespeare Forgeries, Herbert Croft's Love and Madness, and W.H. Ireland's Romantic Career; 2 Gothic Wordsworth; 3 The Romantic Abject: Cagliostro, Carlyle, Coleridge; 4 The Romantic-era Novel; 5 Dissent: Anna Letitia Barbauld; Notes; Bibliography; Index
