Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture

Thomas Chatterton was a poet, forger, and adolescent suicide, and the debate over his work was a pivotal episode in the history of eighteenth-century literature. It ultimately established Chatterton as the inspiration for Romantic poets like Blake, Coleridge, and Keats. This book is a major collection of diverse new essays by scholars, critics, and writers like Peter Ackroyd and Richard Holmes. They show the mercurial Chatterton in exciting new contexts, and restore him as a seminal figure in English Literature.

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PETER ACKROYD Novelist and biographer PAUL BAINES Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Liverpool INGA BRYDEN Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, King Alfred's College, Winchester DAVID FAIRER Reader in Eighteenth-Century Poetry, University of Leeds JOHN GOODRIDGE Senior Lecturer in English, Nottingham Trent University RICHARD HOLMES Biographer BRIDGET KEEGAN Assistant Professor of English, Creighton University, Omaha GEORGES LAMOINE Lecturer in English Literature and History, Université du Mirail MARIA GRAZIA LOLLA Senior Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University TIMOTHY MORTON Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado CLAUDE RAWSON Maynard Mack Professor of English, Yale University PAT ROGERS DeBartolo Professor of the Liberal Arts, University of South Florida MICHAEL SUAREZ, SJ Junior Research Fellow, St John's College, Oxford CAROLYN D. WILLIAMS Lecturer, Department of English, University of Reading MICHAEL WOOD Professor of English, Princeton University

Inhalt
Foreword: Thomas Chatterton; P.Ackroyd Introduction; N.Groom PART I: LIFE AND WORKS Unparodying and Forgery: The Augustan Chatterton; C.Rawson The Originality of Chatterton's Art; G.Lemoine 'On Tiber's Banks': Chatterton and Post-Colonialism; C.Williams The Mythical Image: Chatterton, King Arthur, and Heraldry; I.Bryden In Your Face; T.Morton 'This Necessary Knowledge': Thomas Chatterton's Understanding of the Bristol and London Book Trades; M.Suarez, SJ Appendix PART II: THE ROWLEY CONTROVERSY AND AFTER Chatterton and the Club; P.Rogers Chatterton and Johnson: Authority and Filiation in the 1770s; P.Baines Fragments, Reliques , & MSS: Chatterton and Percy; N.Groom Truth Sacrifising To The Muses: The Rowley Controversy and the Genesis of the Romantic Chatterton; M.G.Lolla Nostalgic Chatterton: Fictions of Poetic Identity and the Forging of a Self-taught Tradition; B.Keegan Chatterton's Poetic Afterlife 1770-1796: A Context for Coleridge's Monody ; D.Fairer Forging The Poet: Some Early Pictures of Thomas Chatterton; R.Holmes Afterword; M.Wood Rowley's Ghost: A Checklist of Creative Works Inspired by Thomas Chatterton's Life and Writings; J.Goodridge Index