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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- ONE. Thomas Chatterton: Writing the Life, Editing the Poetry -- "A Boy of Learning and a Bard of Tropes": The Life of Thomas Chatterton, 1752-1770 -- The Rowley Controversy: Authenticating Chatterton -- Chatterton's Oeuvre: Editing the "Marvellous Boy" -- TWO. The Chatterton Legend: Tributes, Adaptations, Memorials -- Romanticizing Chatterton: Myth and Muse -- Popularizing Chatterton: Image and Stage -- Memorializing Chatterton: Wilde, Chatterton, and the Century Guild -- THREE. Wilde's Discovery of Chatterton: The "Father of the Romantic Movement" -- Wilde, Chatterton, and "the Spirit of Modern Romance" -- Wilde and the "Great Romantic Movement": From Keats to Rossetti -- Watts, Rossetti, and Chatterton: "The New Romantic School" -- FOUR. Wilde's "Chatterton" Notebook: The Art of Forgery and the Charge of Plagiarism -- "Bring Your Books-and Some Notebooks for Me": Wilde's Note Taking -- The "Chatterton" Notebook as Wilde's Archive -- The Composition of the "Chatterton" Notebook: Clippings and Sources -- Wilde as Editor: Refining Others' Words in the "Chatterton" Notebook -- Wilde, the "Chatterton" Notebook, and Plagiarism -- FIVE. Wilde, Forgery, and Crime: "Pen, Pencil and Poison," "The Decay of Lying," and the Short Fiction -- "Expression by Pen or Poison": Thomas Griffiths Wainewright's Art of Forgery -- "The Very Basis of Civilized Society": Wilde's "Decay of Lying" -- "All Others Are Counterfeite": Wilde's Short Fiction -- SIX. Forging Literary History: "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." -- Literary Forgery contra Archaeological History -- Tyrwhitt, Malone, and "Willie Hughes": The History of a Theory -- Wilde's "Portrait," Shakespeare, and Forgery after Chatterton: William-Henry Ireland -- John Payne Collier, the Second Folio, and Editorial Forgery.
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