Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture

✍ Scribed by Nick Groom (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-2
Introduction....Pages 3-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Unparodying and Forgery: The Augustan Chatterton....Pages 15-31
The Originality of Chatterton’s Art....Pages 32-47
‘On Tiber’s Banks’: Chatterton and Post-Colonialism....Pages 48-63
The Mythical Image: Chatterton, King Arthur, and Heraldry....Pages 64-78
In Your Face....Pages 79-95
‘This Necessary Knowledge’: Thomas Chatterton and the Ways of the London Book Trade....Pages 96-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Chatterton and the Club....Pages 121-150
‘Truth Sacrifising to the Muses’: The Rowley Controversy and the Genesis of the Romantic Chatterton....Pages 151-171
Chatterton and Johnson: Authority and Filiation in the 1770s....Pages 172-187
Fragments, Reliques, & MSS: Chatterton and Percy....Pages 188-209
Nostalgic Chatterton: Fictions of Poetic Identity and the Forging of a Self-Taught Tradition....Pages 210-227
Chatterton’s Poetic Afterlife, 1770–1794: A Context for Coleridge’s Monody ....Pages 228-252
Forging the Poet: Some Early Pictures of Thomas Chatterton....Pages 253-258
Afterword....Pages 259-261
Rowley’s Ghost: A Checklist of Creative Works Inspired by Thomas Chatterton’s Life and Writings....Pages 262-292
Back Matter....Pages 293-300

✦ Subjects

Poetry and Poetics;Early Modern/Renaissance Literature