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Title Romanticism, sincerity, and authenticity / edited by Timothy Milnes and Kerry Sinanan
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 268 pages)
Contents Forging authenticity -- Acts of sincerity -- Marketing the genuine --The case of Austen
Summary Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity offers new assessments of the concepts of 'sincerity' and 'authenticity' in Romantic-period literature. Since at least the early twentieth century, both terms have been treated with scepticism, appearing to denote at best naIve aspiration, and at worst deception and reductive essentialism. Sincerity and authenticity remain, however, pivotal concepts for scholars and students of Romantic literature who strive to understand the cultural resonance of the spectacular literary forgeries of Macpherson and Chatterton, or to negotiate literary media, such as diaries, letters and 'confessions'. They are indispensable for understanding how, even as Wordsworth and Coleridge install the concept of 'real' speech at the heart of the manifesto of the Lyrical Ballads, antiquarians such as Percy struggle to preserve the dissolving remnants of ancient English literature. This volume engages anew with sincerity and authenticity in the Romantic period, making the terms meaningful to our current critical endeavours
"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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-261) and index
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Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Romanticism -- Great Britain
Sincerity in literature.
Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 -- English.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature
English literature
Romanticism
Sincerity in literature
Authentizität
Literatur
Romantik
Wahrhaftigkeit Motiv
Wahrhaftigkeit -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur.
Englische Literatur -- Motiv -- Wahrhaftigkeit.
Englische Literatur -- Romantik.
Great Britain
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Milnes, Tim
Sinanan, Kerry
ISBN 9780230281738
0230281737