Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity

Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction; K.Sinanan& T.Milnes PART I: FORGING AUTHENTICITY Genuity or Ingenuity? Invented Tradition and the Scottish Talent; M.Russett 'A Blank Made': Ossian , Authenticity, and the Possibilities of Forgery; D.Moore Authenticity Among Hacks: Thomas Chatterton's 'Memoirs of a Sad Dog' and Magazine Culture; D.Cook PART II: ACTS OF SINCERITY The Scandal of Sincerity: Wordsworth, Byron, Landon; A.Esterhammer Making Sense of Sincerity in The Prelude ;  T.Milnes   Too Good to be True? Hannah More, Sincerity, and Evangelical Abolitionism; K.Sinanan Sincerity's Repetition: Carlyle, Tennyson and Other Repetitive Victorians; J.Wright PART III: MARKETING THE GENUINE By Its Own Hand: Periodicals and the Paradox of Romantic Authenticity; S.Lodge Acts of Insincerity? Thomas Spence and Radical Print Culture in the 1790s; J.Halliwell PART IV: THE CASE OF AUSTEN Austen, Sincerity and the Standard; A.J.Dick 'Facts are Such Horrible Things!': The Question of Authentic Femininity in Jane Austen; A.Tauchert Notes Bibliography Index